jaje
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See also: jāje
Kashubian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ȃje, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓja, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.
Noun[edit]
jaje
Further reading[edit]
- “jaje”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ȃje (“egg”), ultimately from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓja (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
jáje n (Cyrillic spelling ја́је)
- egg
- pržena jaja ― fried eggs
- jaje na oko ― sunny-side up egg
- u Čečeniji su pronašli jaja dinosaura stara 60 000 000 godina ― they found dinosaur eggs in Chechnya that are 60 000 000 years old
- (mildly vulgar, colloquial, usually in the plural) ball, testicle
- frajeru, ček, obrijao si jaja? ― dude, wait, you shaved your balls?
- gospođo, upoznajte čelična jaja ― madam, meet balls of steel
- kučka me udarila u jaja! ― the bitch kicked me in the nuts!
- idiomatic and figurative meanings
- tražiti dlaku u jajetu ― to look for meaningless details
- (biti sličan) kao jaje jajetu ― as two peas in a pod
- hladiti jaja ― to rest and enjoy (as opposed to be working hard)
- držati koga za jaja ― to have somebody by the balls
- do jaja ― (as an adjective) awesome; (as an adverb) awesomely; completely, to the full
Declension[edit]
Declension of jaje
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
References[edit]
- “jaje” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Categories:
- Kashubian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Kashubian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Kashubian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Kashubian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Kashubian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Kashubian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Kashubian lemmas
- Kashubian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian neuter nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms with usage examples
- Serbo-Croatian vulgarities
- Serbo-Croatian colloquialisms