žega

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žega.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒêɡa/
  • Hyphenation: že‧ga

Noun

žȅga f (Cyrillic spelling же̏га)

  1. hotness, sultriness

Declension

Declension of žega
singular plural
nominative žȅga žege
genitive žege žȇgā
dative žȅzi žegama
accusative žegu žege
vocative žego žege
locative žȅzi žegama
instrumental žegom žegama

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “žega”, 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 617

Further reading

  • “žega”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • “жега”, in Raskovnik [Dictionary portal Raskovnik of the Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts] (in Serbo-Croatian), http://raskovnik.org, 2015–2024
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