kovilje

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kovylь.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kôʋiːʎe/
  • Hyphenation: ko‧vi‧lje

Noun

kȍvīlje n (Cyrillic spelling ко̏вӣље)

  1. feathergrass

Declension

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “kȍvīlje”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 490

Further reading

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