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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žerbьjь. First attested in the 15th century.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒdrijêːb/
- Hyphenation: ždri‧jeb
Noun
ždrijȇb m (Cyrillic spelling ждрије̑б)
- lot (anything used in determining a question by chance)
Declension
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “ždrijȇb”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 616