пљувати

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pľьvati.

Cognate with Bulgarian плюя (pljuja), Slovene pljuvati, Russian плева́ть (plevátʹ), Slovak pľuť. Non-Slavic cognates include Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō), Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (speiwan), Sanskrit ष्ठीवति (ṣṭhīvati, to spit), Old Armenian թուք (tʻukʻ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʎûʋati/
  • Hyphenation: пљу‧ва‧ти

Verb

пљу̏вати impf (Latin spelling pljȕvati)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to spit

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Further reading

  • пљувати”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плевать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress