mač

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mac"

Dameli

Noun

mač

1. man
2. husband

Further reading

• Perder, Emil (2013) A Grammatical Description of Dameli‎^[1], Stockholm: Stockholm University

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• meč (Chakavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mьčь. Further etymology unclear. Possibly, borrowed from Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 (mēkeis, “sword”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mât͡ʃ/

Noun

mȁč m (Cyrillic spelling ма̏ч)

1. sword

   Ko se mača lati, od mača će poginuti. ― Whoever wields a sword will die by the sword.

Declension

Declension of mač

	singular	plural
nominative	mȁč	màčevi
genitive	mača	mȁčēvā
dative	maču	mačevima
accusative	mač	mačeve
vocative	maču	mačevi
locative	maču	mačevima
instrumental	mačem	mačevima

Derived terms

• mačèvalac
• mȁčevati

Further reading

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