kmet

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English

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian kmȅt.

Pronunciation

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Noun

kmet (plural kmets or kmetovi)

  1. (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 []

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kъmetь, from Latin comes.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. very old man
    Synonym: → stařec

Declension

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Further reading


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kъmetь, from Latin comes.

Pronunciation

Noun

kmȅt m (Cyrillic spelling кме̏т)

  1. (historical) serf, peon (a working peasant on lord's estate)
  2. peasant, villager
  3. village major or leader

Declension


Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kъmetь, from Latin comes.

Pronunciation

Noun

kmȅt m anim

  1. peasant
  2. (chess) pawn

Inflection

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Masculine anim., hard o-stem
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