Klaić

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• Klajić

Etymology

Alternative spelling of Klajić, omitting the non-phonemic ⟨j⟩.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klǎːit͡ɕ/
• Hyphenation: Kla‧ić

Proper noun

Kláić ? (Cyrillic spelling Кла́ић)

1. a Serbo-Croatian surname
2. (Croatia, metonymically) Rječnik stranih riječi (A Dictionary of Foreign Words, 1st ed. 1951) by Bratoljub Klaić
   • 2023 October 14, Feđa Gavrilović, “Zabranjeni trg”, in Jutarnji list‎^[1], number 9039, Zagreb, page 15:

     Oduzeti građanima trg [...] znak je potpune odvojenosti vladajuće elite od naroda i od onoga što bi republika trebala značiti, već prema samom korijenu te riječi (otvorite Klaića ako ste toliko zabrazdili u hrvatskoj političkoj svakodnevici da ste to zaboravili).

     To take the public square away from the citizens [...] is a sign of the ruling elite's complete disconnect from the people and from what a republic should signify, by the very root of that word (open a Klaić if you've ended up stuck so deep in Croatian political humdrum to the point of forgetting it).

References

• “Klaić” in Hrvatski jezični portal (kljȁst)
• “Klaić” in Hrvatski jezični portal (Kláić)
• Skok, Petar (1972) “kljȁst”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (K – poni¹), Zagreb: JAZU, page 104