kljast

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʎâst/

Adjective

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

Indefinite forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		kljast	kljasta	kljasto
genitive		kljasta	kljaste	kljasta
dative		kljastu	kljastoj	kljastu
accusative	inanimate animate	kljast kljasta	kljastu	kljasto
vocative		kljast	kljasta	kljasto
locative		kljastu	kljastoj	kljastu
instrumental		kljastim	kljastom	kljastim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		kljasti	kljaste	kljasta
genitive		kljastih	kljastih	kljastih
dative		kljastim(a)	kljastim(a)	kljastim(a)
accusative		kljaste	kljaste	kljasta
vocative		kljasti	kljaste	kljasta
locative		kljastim(a)	kljastim(a)	kljastim(a)
instrumental		kljastim(a)	kljastim(a)	kljastim(a)

Definite forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		kljasti	kljasta	kljasto
genitive		kljastog(a)	kljaste	kljastog(a)
dative		kljastom(u/e)	kljastoj	kljastom(u/e)
accusative	inanimate animate	kljasti kljastog(a)	kljastu	kljasto
vocative		kljasti	kljasta	kljasto
locative		kljastom(e/u)	kljastoj	kljastom(e/u)
instrumental		kljastim	kljastom	kljastim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		kljasti	kljaste	kljasta
genitive		kljastih	kljastih	kljastih
dative		kljastim(a)	kljastim(a)	kljastim(a)
accusative		kljaste	kljaste	kljasta
vocative		kljasti	kljaste	kljasta
locative		kljastim(a)	kljastim(a)	kljastim(a)
instrumental		kljastim(a)	kljastim(a)	kljastim(a)

Derived terms

• Kljajo
  • Kljajić (Kljaić), Klajić (Klaić)
• kljakav
• kljaštriti

References

• “kljast”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• 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