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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pověstь, from *povědtь. By surface analysis, po- + vijest.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pôʋijeːst/
- Hyphenation: po‧vi‧jest
Noun
pȍvijēst f (Cyrillic spelling по̏вије̄ст)
- (Croatia) history
- Synonym: historija
- kotač povijesti ― wheel of history
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “povijest”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024