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Hercegovina

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See also: Hercegovinā

English

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Hercegovina

  1. Alternative spelling of Herzegovina: A historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Proper noun

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Hercegovina f

  1. Herzegovina (a historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Hercegovina.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɦɛrt͡sɛɡovɪna]

Proper noun

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Hercegovina f (relational adjective hercegovský, demonym Hercegovec, female demonym Hercegovka)

  1. Herzegovina (a historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Hèrcegovina / Хѐрцеговина,[1] from hèrceg (herceg) (from Hungarian herceg (duke)) + -ov (possessive suffix) +‎ -ina (feminine suffix).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈhɛrt͡sɛɡovinɒ]
  • Hyphenation: Her‧ce‧go‧vi‧na
  • Rhymes: -nɒ

Proper noun

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Hercegovina

  1. Herzegovina (a historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Hercegovina
accusative Hercegovinát
dative Hercegovinának
instrumental Hercegovinával
causal-final Hercegovináért
translative Hercegovinává
terminative Hercegovináig
essive-formal Hercegovinaként
essive-modal
inessive Hercegovinában
superessive Hercegovinán
adessive Hercegovinánál
illative Hercegovinába
sublative Hercegovinára
allative Hercegovinához
elative Hercegovinából
delative Hercegovináról
ablative Hercegovinától
non-attributive
possessive – singular
Hercegovináé
non-attributive
possessive – plural
Hercegovináéi
Possessive forms of Hercegovina
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Hercegovinám
2nd person sing. Hercegovinád
3rd person sing. Hercegovinája
1st person plural Hercegovinánk
2nd person plural Hercegovinátok
3rd person plural Hercegovinájuk

Derived terms

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Compound words

References

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  1. ^ Lajos Kiss (Q1111850). Földrajzi nevek etimológiai szótára (’An Etymological Dictionary of Geographical Names / Toponyms’). Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980, page 271–272. →ISBN

Latvian

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Hercegovina

Etymology

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Херцеговина (Hercegovina), itself from German Herzog (duke), with a Slavic adjectival ending -(o)vina, referring to the medieval duchy of Stjepan Vukčić Kosača, who took the title of Herceg (= Herzog, Duke) of Saint Sava in 1419.

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Proper noun

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Hercegovina f (4th declension)

  1. Herzegovina (a historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

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Declension of Hercegovina (4th)
singular
(vienskaitlis)
plural
(daudzskaitlis)
nominative Hercegovina
genitive Hercegovinas
dative Hercegovinai
accusative Hercegovinu
instrumental Hercegovinu
locative Hercegovinā
vocative Hercegovina

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See also

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historical regions in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lithuanian

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Proper noun

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Hercegovina f

  1. Herzegovina (a historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Derived from the title herceg (duke), from German Herzog, plus the Serbo-Croatian suffixes -ov and -ina, thus “Land of the Duke”. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

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Hèrcegovina f (Cyrillic spelling Хѐрцеговина)

  1. Herzegovina (a historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Slovene

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /xɛrt͡sɛɡɔʋìːna/

Proper noun

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Hercegovína f

  1. Herzegovina (a historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nominative Hercegovína
genitive Hercegovíne
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
Hercegovína
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
Hercegovíne
dative
(dajȃlnik)
Hercegovíni
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
Hercegovíno
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
Hercegovíni
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
Hercegovíno

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