zobati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zobati, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gab- (to watch, show).[1] Cognate with Proto-West Germanic *kapēn (to watch, to look), Proto-Germanic *kōpijaną (to look after, care for).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zǒbati/
  • Hyphenation: zo‧ba‧ti

Verb

zòbati impf (Cyrillic spelling зо̀бати)

  1. (transitive) to peck

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “349”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 349

Further reading

  • zobati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024