шушкати

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Serbo-Croatian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Onomatopoeic, compare Russian шушу́каться (šušúkatʹsja), Ukrainian шушу́кати (šušúkaty), Belarusian шушу́каць (šušúkacʹ), шу́шкаць (šúškacʹ), Bulgarian шушу́кам (šušúkam), Macedonian шушка (šuška), Slovene šȗškati (tonal orthography), Czech šuškat.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

шу̏шкати impf (Latin spelling šȕškati)

  1. to produce a certain sound – to rustle; to pronounce the sibilants in a retracted fashion, to articulate with palatal sigmatism
  2. (figurative) to whisper, to say with the hand over the mouth

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References[edit]

  • шушкати” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • шушкати”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 6, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1976, published 1990, page 1035