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Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *slyšati, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-.
Pronunciation
Verb
slȉšati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling сли̏шати)
- (obsolete) to hear
- (obsolete) to question, to interrogate
- 1521, Marko Marulić, Judita:
- Sliſcaiu zaidoſce, od chud gres i chamo
Catgime rochoſce, prauinam da znamo.
- Sliša(t) ju zajdoše: »Od kud greš i kamo?
Ča t’ jime?«, rekoše. »Pravi nam da znamo.«
- They came by to question her: “Where do you come from and where are you going?
What is your name?” they said. “Tell us, that we may know.”
References
- Josip Hamm, editor (1955-1956), “slišati”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 15, Zagreb: JAZU, page 540
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *slyšati, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-.
Pronunciation
Verb
slíšati impf or pf
- to hear
- Synonym: čúti
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “slišati”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran