kresati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *krěsati, *kresati (compare Russian креса́ть (kresátʹ), Polish krzosać), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (to weave), related to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, thread).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krěsati/
  • Hyphenation: kre‧sa‧ti

Verb

krèsati impf (Cyrillic spelling крѐсати)

  1. (transitive) to prune, trim, cut, clip
    kresati graneto trim branches
    kresati stablo/drvoto prune a tree
  2. (transitive, slang) to have sex
    kresao sam mu sestru dok je bio na ljetovanju/letovanjuI was having sex with his sister while he was on vacation
  3. (transitive) to reduce, cut, decrease
    kresali smo budžet sve dok ga nismo uravnotežiliwe kept cutting the budget until we balanced it
  4. (transitive, with dative) to speak openly and harshly
    nemoj mi kresati te gluposti u brk!stop telling me telling that nonsense off to my face!

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References

  • kresati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • kresati”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 2, Друго фототипско издање edition, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 55
  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 775