lanac

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Middle High German lanne (“chain”) +‎ -ac, the Middle High German from Old High German lanna (“metal sheet, platelet; chain”), from Vulgar Latin lanna from Latin lāmina (“sheet especially of metal”). Cognate with Slovene lanec (“chain”), Macedonian and Bulgarian ланец (lanec, “golden or silver chain”), South and Western Russian ланцу́г (lancúg, “chain”), Polish łańcuch (“chain”), Czech and Slovak lano (“cable, rope”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lǎːnats/
• Hyphenation: la‧nac

Noun

lánac m (Cyrillic spelling ла́нац)

1. chain

Declension

Declension of lanac

	singular	plural
nominative	lanac	lanci
genitive	lanca	lanaca
dative	lancu	lancima
accusative	lanac	lance
vocative	lanče	lanci
locative	lancu	lancima
instrumental	lancem	lancima

Derived terms

• lànčanī

References

• Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “lanac”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN