žuna

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See also: zuna and zunâ

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьlna (“green woodpecker”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gilˀnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-.[1]

Noun

žuna f (Cyrillic spelling жуна)

  1. woodpecker
    Synonyms: dȅtlić, djȅtlić, djètao

Declension

Declension of žuna
singular plural
nominative žuna žune
genitive žune žunā
dative žuni žunama
accusative žunu žune
vocative žuno žune
locative žuni žunama
instrumental žunom žunama

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “žuna”, 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 626
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