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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From živa, indefinite feminine form of živ (“alive, lively”). Compare Macedonian жива (živa), Slovene živo srebro, semantically English quicksilver, Latin argentum vivum and Persian جیوه (jive, “mercury”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒîʋa/
- Hyphenation: ži‧va
Noun
žȉva f (Cyrillic spelling жи̏ва)
- (uncountable) mercury
Declension
Adjective
živa
- inflection of živ:
- feminine nominative/vocative singular
- indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
- indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural