žeći

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See also: zeci and żęci

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žeťi, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *degtéi, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰégʷʰeti (to burn). First attested in the 14th century.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʒětɕi/ (žèći)
  • IPA(key): /ʒêtɕi/ (žȅći)
  • Hyphenation: že‧ći

Verb

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žèći impf (Cyrillic spelling жѐћи) or žȅći impf (Cyrillic spelling же̏ћи)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to burn

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “žèći”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 627