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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьrny.[1]
Noun
žrvanj m (Cyrillic spelling жрвањ)
- millstone
- grindstone
Declension
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “žrvanj”, 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 625