žega

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žega.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʒêɡa/
  • Hyphenation: že‧ga

Noun

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žȅga f (Cyrillic spelling же̏га)

  1. hotness, sultriness

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “žega”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 617

Further reading

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  • žega” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • жега”, in Raskovnik [Dictionary portal Raskovnik of the Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts] (in Serbo-Croatian), http://raskovnik.org, 2024