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Černý (ˈtʃɛrniː), rendered without diacritics

Diacritics

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as Cerny, is a common Czech

Czech language

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...

surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

. Originally, it is an adjective

Adjective

In grammar, an adjective is a 'describing' word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified....

in the Czech language

Czech language

, meaning "black

Black

Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light...

"; like many other surnames, this originally made reference to a person's physical qualities, namely dark hair colour or perhaps darker complexion

Complexion

Complexion refers to the natural color, texture, and appearance of the skin, especially that of the face.-History:The word "complexion" is derived from the Late Latin complexi, which initially referred in general terms to a combination of things, and later in physiological terms, to the balance of...

.

Cognate

Cognate

In linguistics, cognates are words that have a common etymological origin. This learned term derives from the Latin cognatus . Cognates within the same language are called doublets. Strictly speaking, loanwords from another language are usually not meant by the term, e.g...

surnames exist in other Slavic

Slavic languages

The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic...

-speaking countries, e.g. Čierny in Slovak

Slovak language

Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...

, Czarny in Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

, Cherny (Chorny) (Чёрный) in Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

, though they are not as prolific as in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

. There also exist Anglicised

Anglicisation

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, Germanised

Germanisation

Germanisation is both the spread of the German language, people and culture either by force or assimilation, and the adaptation of a foreign word to the German language in linguistics, much like the Romanisation of many languages which do not use the Latin alphabet...

or Polonised forms (Cherny, Tscherny, or Czerny
Czerny
Czerny means black in several Slavic languages. There are several people with the last name Czerny:*Adalbert Czerny , German pediatrician, co-founder of modern pediatrics*Carl Czerny , Austrian pianist, composer and teacher...

, respectively), and other mutations.

Surnames with the meaning "black" also exist in many other languages, including German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

(Schwarz and its variants), English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

(Black
Black (surname)
Black is an English surname. Notable persons with that surname include:*Alan W. Black*Amy Black, English mezzo-soprano singer*Ann Black*Arthur Black , humorist*Baxter Black*Ben Black...

), Chinese

Chinese language

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(黑 Hēi), etc.

Related surnames include Černík
Oldrich Cerník
Oldřich Černík was a Czechoslovakian Communist political figure. He was the Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from April 8, 1968 to January 28, 1970....

, Chernenko
Chernenko
Chernenko , is a surname of Ukrainian origin. Notable persons with the surname include:* Konstantin Chernenko , Soviet politician and General Secretary of the CPSU* Anastasiya Chernenko, professional Ukrainian Elite triathlete...

, Chernov
Chernov
Chernov is a Slavic surname formed from the Russian word Chyorny meaning black. The feminine form of the surname is Chernova...

, etc.

Female form

Unlike the majority of Czech surnames (and those of other Slavic languages), Černý does not use the suffix -ová for its female form. Instead, since the name is derived from an adjective, the feminine form of that adjective is used. This yields Černá
Černá
Černá is a village close to Lomnice nad Popelkou, Czech Republic. Černá is an administrative part of Lomnice nad Popelkou.- External links :***...

in Czech, Čierna
Cierna
Čierna is a village and municipality in the Trebišov District in the Košice Region of south-eastern Slovakia.-Geography:The village lies at an altitude of 101 metres and covers an area of 4.244 km².It has a population of 415 people.-Ethnicity:...

in Slovak, Czarna in Polish, etc.

Notable Černí and Cernys

David Černý
David Cerný
David Černý is a Jewish - Czech sculptor whose works can be seen in many locations in Prague. His works tend to be controversial. He gained notoriety in 1991 by painting a Soviet tank pink that served as a war memorial in central Prague...

(born 1967), Czech sculptor
Ervín Černý
Ervín Cerný
Professor Ervín Černý-Křetínský was a Doctor of Medicine and Professor of Charles University in Prague.- Biography :...

(1913–2001), Czech Professor, Archeologist and Poet
Harald Cerny
Harald Cerny
Harald Cerny is a former Austrian football right midfielder. He played mostly for TSV 1860 München.-Club career:After coming through the youth ranks at Admira Wacker, Cerny began his professional career at German giants FC Bayern Munich in 1992–93, making his top division debut on 27 October 1992,...

(born 1973), Austrian football midfielder
Jan Černý
Jan Cerný
Jan Černý was a Czechoslovakian civil servant and politician. He was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1921 and in 1926.-External links:...

(1874–1959), Czechoslovakian politician
Jan Černý (mathematician)
Jan Černý-Nigranus
Jan Cerný-Nigranus
Jan Černý-Nigranus , was a Czech historian, preacher and bishop of the Jednota bratrská now called the Moravian Church.-Life:...

, 16th century historian
Jaroslav Černý
Jaroslav Cerný (Egyptologist)
-Biography:Jaroslav Černý was born on 22 August 1898 in Pilsen in Austro-Hungary. He studied from 1917 till 1922 at the Charles University in Prague, where he received his doctorate in 1929. He took part in Bernard Bruyère's excavations at Deir el-Medina in 1925 and the village became the focus of...

(1898–1970), Czech Egyptologist
JoBe Cerny
JoBe Cerny
JoBe Cerny, sometimes credited as Jo Be Cerny, is a voice-over personality and character actor, best known as the voice of Pillsbury Doughboy and as Procter & Gamble's silent spokesman, The Cheer Man....

, voice-over personality and character actor
Jon Cerny, programmer, teacher, and Civil War enthusiast
Mark Cerny
Mark Cerny
Mark Cerny is a video game industry figure who has worked as a game designer, programmer, producer and business executive. As president of Cerny Games, which he founded in 1998, he now acts as a consultant in the video game industry. In 2004, he was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award...

(born 1964), programmer
Milan Černý
Milan Cerný
Milan Černý is a Czech football player who currently plays for Turkish club Sivasspor.- Career :Černý began his career with SK Slavia Prague on youth side, he played than his first game in the Gambrinus liga on 14 May 2005 against 1. FK Příbram. In May 2006, his career was halted due to a knee...

, Czech footballer
Petr Černý
Petr Cerny
Petr Černý FRSC is a mineralogy professor at the University of Manitoba.Černý studies focus on pegmatite. He is best known for his geological mapping of Bernic Lake, Manitoba in the 1970s...

, Canadian mineralogist
Radek Černý
Radek Cerný
Radek Černý is a Czech footballer who plays for Queens Park Rangers as a goalkeeper.-Slavia Prague:Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Černý turned professional in 1993 as a 17-year-old with Slavia Prague, his home team...

(born 1974), Czech footballer
Tomáš Černý
Tomáš Cerný
Tomáš Černý is a Czech professional footballer who plays for Hamilton Academical in the Scottish Premier League as a goalkeeper.- Club career :...

, Czech goalkeeper
Vlastimil Černý
Vlastimil Cerny
Vlastimil Černý is a former international butterfly and freestyle swimmer, who competed for Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he finished in 12th position in the 100m Butterfly, and in ninth place with the Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Team.- References :...

(born 1963), Czech/Canadian competitive swimmer

Female form

Notable Černí and Cernys

See also