Miestnych

Miestnych is a form of the adjective miestny, meaning local or municipal, used in Slovak and, with a diacritic form in Czech, to indicate relation to a place. It is the genitive plural form, appearing when a noun is in the genitive case or when describing a group in contexts tied to a particular locality.

In Slovak, miestny denotes something related to a place or town. The genitive plural form miestnych is used to modify masculine animate or inanimate nouns in phrases such as miestnych obyvateľov (local inhabitants) or miestnych úradov (local offices). In Czech, the corresponding form is místních, used similarly in phrases like místních obyvatel or místních orgánů.

Usage and scope of meaning are primarily administrative and descriptive. The word commonly appears in legal, municipal, and demographic texts to specify relations to a municipality, district, or neighborhood. It can describe characteristics, rights, duties, or bodies associated with a locality.

Etymology traces miestny to a root meaning place or locality, connected to the noun mesto in Slovak (city) and the Czech mesto. The genitive plural form reflects standard Slavic adjective declension, aligning the modifier with the nouns it accompanies.

Notes on spelling: Slovak uses miestnych without diacritics in plain text; Czech uses místních with the háček on s. Both forms function equivalently within their respective languages.

See also: local government, municipal administration, demographics.