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Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *zemľa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źemē, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm.
Pronunciation
Noun
zemja f (diminutive zemiska)
- soil, earth, ground
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “zemja”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “zemja”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
zemja f (Cyrillic spelling земја)
- Archaic and Chakavian form of zèmlja (“soil, earth, ground, country”)
Upper Sorbian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zemľà.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzɛmja/
- Rhymes: -ɛmja
- Hyphenation: zem‧ja
- Syllabification: zem‧ja
Noun
zemja f
- (astronomy, geography) Earth (primary planet of the solar system, which we inhabit, ellipsoidal in shape with polar flattening (1/297), 6370 km of average radius and 540,082,000 km2 of surface, according to Kossina's calculation)
- floor (surface we walk on)
- Synonym: póda
- (literary) country (space demarcated by geographic borders and endowed with its own sovereignty)
- Synonym: kraj
Declension
Declension of zemja (feminine soft stem)
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