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NODE / 0114attestedCzech

robota

compulsory labor, corvée, drudgery

DATE
Czech historical vocabulary
SENSE
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FAMILY
Indo-European / West Slavic
CANONICAL KEY
node:16:robota:attested
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ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

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GO DEEPERinheritanceprobable
Proto-Slavic · Proto-Slavic prehistory

*orbota

work; hard or obligatory labor

SOUND
Czech robota continues the reconstructed Slavic form with loss of the initial vowel and regular West Slavic development.
MEANING
Obligatory work and drudgery preserve the inherited labor field.
SCHOLAR
Slavic etymological lexicography
CONFIDENCE
probable — The Proto-Slavic form is reconstructed from multiple Slavic languages.
robota — Słownik etymologicznysupports*orbota

Slavic etymological reconstruction.

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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

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DESCENDANTcreative coinageestablished
Present-Day English · 1922–today

robot

an artificial worker; later an automatic or programmable machine

SOUND
Josef Čapek suggested robot from Czech robota; English received the coined form through Karel Čapek's R.U.R. and its translation.
MEANING
Compulsory human labor was reassigned to artificial workers, then generalized to automatic machines.
CHRONOLOGY
R.U.R. appeared in 1920; English first known use is 1922.
SCHOLAR
Merriam-Webster editors
CONFIDENCE
established
Robot — Word HistorysupportsDid You Know and Word History

Josef Čapek suggestion, robota, 1920 play, and 1922 English record.

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RECORDED EVIDENCE

ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE

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SOURCE-REPORTEDlexical corpusestablished

Source-reported coinage context in R.U.R.

Source-reported literary coinage context; no first-edition page facsimile was directly inspected.

robot dossier · recorded as robota
WITNESS RECORD ↗Robot — Word History ↗
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