ohývat

Ohívat is a fictional or speculative verb used in language-design discussions and worldbuilding to denote the act of publicly inviting or summoning participants to a gathering, debate, or ceremony. It is not attested in standard Czech and is considered a neologism created for narrative or analytical purposes. In the imagined lexicon, ohívat is an imperfective, transitive verb formed with the prefix o- and a root akin to hív-, following the pattern of Czech verbs ending in -vat.

In hypothetical usage, ohívat takes a direct object representing the invited party (people, groups, or institutions) and can be complemented with a location and time. The contrast with pozvat is often noted: ohívat implies a formal, public invitation issued by an authority, whereas pozvat denotes a more casual invitation to participate in an event.

Common contexts in which ohívat appears include ceremonial assemblies, public hearings, and community convocations. The term is sometimes discussed in linguistic fiction as a case study of how invitation verbs encode social power and forms of access to discourse.

Examples in fictional texts might include: "Starosta ohívá občany na veřejnou debatu." and "Úřad ohívá členy rady k jednání." In real language practice, authors would vary morphological realizations to fit a created dialect or language system.

See also: invitation, invocation, convocational verb, constructed language.

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