kmet

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English

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian kmȅt. Doublet of count and comes.

Pronunciation

Noun

kmet (plural kmets or kmetovi)

  1. (historical) A serf on the Balkan peninsula, especially one holding land under the estate system introduced by the Ottomans and retained in some areas by Austria-Hungary.
    • 1876, Arthur John Evans, Through Bosnia and Herzegovina On Foot:
      Suffering from this double disability, social and religious, the Christian ‘kmet,’ or tiller of the soil, is worse off than many a serf in our darkest ages, and lies as completely at the mercy of the Mahometan owner of the soil as if he were a slave.
    • 1997, Michael Palairet, The Balkan Economies c. 1800-1914, Cambridge, published 2002, page 206:
      The authorities repeatedly emphasized that the kmet was not bound to his master, to counter allegations equating kmet tenure with servile status.
    • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 74:
      In any case, the Serbian kmets who remained within the old estate system on the eve of the First World War were not especially badly off by the standards of early twentieth-century peasant Europe […]

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъmetь, from Latin comes.

Pronunciation

Noun

kmet m anim (female equivalent kmetice, diminutive kmetík)

  1. (literary) old man
    Synonym: stařec

Declension

Declension of kmet (hard masculine animate)
singular plural
nominative kmet kmetové
genitive kmeta kmetů
dative kmetovi, kmetu kmetům
accusative kmeta kmety
vocative kmete kmetové
locative kmetovi, kmetu kmetech
instrumental kmetem kmety

Derived terms

nouns

Further reading

  • “kmet”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “kmet”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “kmet”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъmetь, from Latin comes.

Pronunciation

Noun

kmȅt m (Cyrillic spelling кме̏т)

  1. (historical) serf, peon (a working peasant on lord's estate)
  2. peasant, villager
  3. village major or leader

Declension

Declension of kmet
singular plural
nominative kmȅt kmètovi
genitive kmeta kmetova
dative kmetu kmetovima
accusative kmeta kmetove
vocative kmete kmetovi
locative kmetu kmetovima
instrumental kmetom kmetovima

Further reading

  • “kmet”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kъmetь, from Latin comes.

Pronunciation

Noun

kmȅt m anim

  1. peasant
  2. (chess) pawn

Inflection

 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing. kmèt
gen. sing. kméta
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		kmèt kméta kmétje
kméti
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		kméta kmétov kmétov
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		kmétu kmétoma kmétom
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		kméta kméta kméte
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		kmétu kmétih kmétih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		kmétom kmétoma kméti

Further reading

  • “kmet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • “kmet”, in Termania, Amebis
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