jegulja

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin anguilla. Partly by folk etymology; the end of the Latin source being interpreted as if representing the native feminine suffix -ulja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jěɡuʎa/
• Hyphenation: je‧gu‧lja

Noun

jègulja f (Cyrillic spelling јѐгуља)

1. eel

Declension

Declension of jegulja

	singular	plural
nominative	jegulja	jegulje
genitive	jegulje	jegulja
dative	jegulji	jeguljama
accusative	jegulju	jegulje
vocative	jeguljo	jegulje
locative	jegulji	jeguljama
instrumental	jeguljom	jeguljama

References

• “jegulja”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

Etymology

From Latin anguilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɛɡùːlja/

Noun

jegúlja f

1. eel

Declension

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
nom. sing.	jegúlja
gen. sing.	jegúlje
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	jegúlja	jegúlji	jegúlje
genitive (rodȋlnik)	jegúlje	jegúlj	jegúlj
dative (dajȃlnik)	jegúlji	jegúljama	jegúljam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	jegúljo	jegúlji	jegúlje
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	jegúlji	jegúljah	jegúljah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	jegúljo	jegúljama	jegúljami

Further reading

• “jegulja”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025