štap

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See also: stap and Stap

Lower Sorbian

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Verb

štap

  1. second-person singular imperfect of štapaś

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ščapъ.[1] Cognates include Slovene ščap (“stick, cudgel”), Lower Sorbian šćap (“shepherd's staff”) and Slovak štiap (“stick, pole”). Further compare Latvian šķēps (“spear”) and Proto-Germanic *skaftaz (“shaft, spear”). Unrelated to German Stab.

Pronunciation

Noun

štȃp m (Cyrillic spelling шта̑п)

  1. staff, rod, stick

Declension

Declension of štap
singular plural
nominative štap štapovi
genitive štapa štapova
dative štapu štapovima
accusative štap štapove
vocative štape štapovi
locative štapu štapovima
instrumental štapom štapovima

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Petar Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, Zagreb, 1971, v. 3, p. 412

Further reading

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