žrvanj

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьrny.[1]

Noun

žrvanj m (Cyrillic spelling жрвањ)

  1. millstone
  2. grindstone

Declension

References

  1. ^ 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