lipcati

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Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Byzantine Greek λείπω (leípō, to be missing, to lack).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lîpt͡sati/
  • Hyphenation: lip‧ca‧ti

Verb

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lȉpcati pf (Cyrillic spelling ли̏пцати)

  1. (intransitive) to die (of horse or bovine)
    Ne lipči magare, do zelene trave.Don't die, donkey, until the green grass.

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Vlajić-Popović, Jasna (2015), "Serbian and Greek - A long history of lexical borrowing" in The Serbian language as viewed by the East and the West, Sapporo: Hokkaido University, p. 162