lipsati

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek λείπω (leípō, to be missing, to lack).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lîpsati/
  • Hyphenation: lip‧sa‧ti

Verb

lȉpsati pf (Cyrillic spelling ли̏псати)

  1. (intransitive) to die (of horse or bovine)
    Ne lipši magarče, dok trava naraste.Don't die, donkey, until the grass grows.

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Vlajić-Popović, Jasna (2015), "Serbian and Greek - A long history of lexical borrowing" in The Serbian language as viewed by the East and the West, Sapporo: Hokkaido University, p. 162
  • lipsati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024