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kljast

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *klěstiti ("to pinch, to castrate") (Czech klestit), alternative form of *klěščiti, from *klěšča ("pincers"). With atypical */ě/>/ja/ reflex.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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kljȁst (Cyrillic spelling кља̏ст, definite kljȁstī)

  1. crippled (with a crippled arm), lame
    • ~1530, Marko Marulić (uncertain), “Od Isuchaſsta [Od muke Isukrstove]”, in Zbornik NSK R 6634[1], page 24r:
      riciu listo iednom // ti chgliastih ozdravi
      i hromih obiednom // garbavih izpravi
      ričju listo jednom ti kljastih ozdravi,
      i hromih objednom, garbavih ispravi
      with a word at once you cured the maimed,
      and the limping ones immediately, straightening out the hunch-backed

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  • kljast”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • Matasović, Ranko, Pronk, Tijmen, Ivšić, Dubravka, Brozović Rončević, Dunja (2016) “kljȁst”, in Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika: 1. svezak: A – Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 453
  • Skok, Petar (1972) “kljȁst”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (K – poni¹), Zagreb: JAZU, page 104
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*klěščiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 22