kmet
English
Etymology
From Serbo-Croatian kmȅt. Doublet of count and comes.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun
kmet (plural kmets or kmetovi)
- (historical) A serf on the Balkan peninsula, especially one holding land under the estate system introduced by the Ottomans and retained in some areas by Austria-Hungary.
- 1876, Arthur John Evans, Through Bosnia and Herzegovina On Foot:
- Suffering from this double disability, social and religious, the Christian ‘kmet,’ or tiller of the soil, is worse off than many a serf in our darkest ages, and lies as completely at the mercy of the Mahometan owner of the soil as if he were a slave.
- 1997, Michael Palairet, The Balkan Economies c. 1800-1914, Cambridge 2002, p. 206:
- The authorities repeatedly emphasized that the kmet was not bound to his master, to counter allegations equating kmet tenure with servile status.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 74:
- In any case, the Serbian kmets who remained within the old estate system on the eve of the First World War were not especially badly off by the standards of early twentieth-century peasant Europe […]
- 1876, Arthur John Evans, Through Bosnia and Herzegovina On Foot:
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *kъmetь, from Latin comes.
Pronunciation
Noun
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Declension
Further reading
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *kъmetь, from Latin comes.
Pronunciation
Noun
kmȅt m (Cyrillic spelling кме̏т)
- (historical) serf, peon (a working peasant on lord's estate)
- peasant, villager
- village major or leader
Declension
Declension of kmet
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *kъmetь, from Latin comes.
Pronunciation
Noun
kmȅt m anim
Inflection
Masculine anim., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | kmèt | ||
gen. sing. | kméta | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
kmèt | kméta | kmétje kméti |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
kméta | kmétov | kmétov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
kmétu | kmétoma | kmétom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
kméta | kméta | kméte |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
kmétu | kmétih | kmétih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
kmétom | kmétoma | kméti |
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