jaje

See also: jāje

Kashubian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwisder.

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm

Proto-Balto-Slavic *ōjan

Proto-Slavic *ȃje

Kashubian jaje

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ȃje.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈja.jɛ/
• Rhymes: -ajɛ
• Syllabification: ja‧je

Noun

jaje n

1. egg

Further reading

• “jaje”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Polish

Pronunciation

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Goral):
    • (Zagórze) IPA^(key): [ˈja.jɛ]

Noun

jaje n

1. (Zagórze) alternative form of jajo (“egg”)

Further reading

• Józefa Kobylińska (2001), “jaje, jajo”, in Marian Kucała, editor, Słownik gwary gorczańskiej (zagórzańskiej)‎^[1] (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Pedagogicznej, →ISBN, page 52

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ȃje (“egg”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jǎːje/
• Hyphenation: ja‧je

Noun

jáje n (Cyrillic spelling ја́је)

1. egg

   pržena jaja ― fried eggs

   jaje na oko ― sunny-side up egg

   u Čečeniji su pronašli jaja dinosaura stara 60 000 000 godina ― they found dinosaur eggs in Chechnya that are 60 000 000 years old

2. (mildly vulgar, colloquial, usually in the plural) ball, testicle

   frajeru, ček, obrijao si jaja? ― dude, wait, you shaved your balls?

   gospođo, upoznajte čelična jaja ― madam, meet balls of steel

   kučka me udarila u jaja! ― the bitch kicked me in the nuts!

3. idiomatic and figurative meanings

   tražiti dlaku u jajetu ― to look for meaningless details

   (biti sličan) kao jaje jajetu ― as two peas in a pod

   hladiti jaja ― to rest and enjoy (as opposed to be working hard)

   držati koga za jaja ― to have somebody by the balls

   do jaja ― (as an adjective) awesome; (as an adverb) awesomely; completely, to the full

Declension

Declension of jaje

	singular	plural
nominative	jaje	jaja
genitive	jajeta	jaja
dative	jajetu	jajima
accusative	jaje	jaja
vocative	jaje	jaja
locative	jajetu	jajima
instrumental	jajetom	jajima

Derived terms

• dlaka u jajetu
• jájce
• jàjčan
• jȃjnī
• jȁjovōd

References

• “jaje”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026