njorka
Serbo-Croatian
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Etymology
[edit]From njoriti (“to dive”) + -ka, from Proto-Slavic *noriti.[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]njȏrka f (Cyrillic spelling њо̑рка)
- auk (Alcida)
- 2003, Gordan Lukač, transl., edited by David Burnie, Životinje: velika ilustrirana enciklopedija, Zagreb: Mozaik knjiga, page 308:
- Kao i većina predstavnika porodice njorki, tupik je vrlo društvena vrsta
- As most members of the family of auks, the puffin is a highly sociable species
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | njȏrka | njȏrke |
| genitive | njȏrkē | njȏrkā / njȍrākā / njȏrkī |
| dative | njȏrki | njȏrkama |
| accusative | njȏrku | njȏrke |
| vocative | njȏrko | njȏrke |
| locative | njȏrki | njȏrkama |
| instrumental | njȏrkōm | njȏrkama |
References
[edit]- Мирослав Николић, editor (2011), Речник српскога језика, 2nd edition, Нови Сад: Матица српска
- ^ Вук Стефановић Караџић (1852), “њо̀рити”, in Српски рјечник истумачен њемачкијем и латинскијем ријечима[1], 2nd edition, Беч, page 426
- ^ Skok, Petar (1971), “gnjúrac”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 580
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*noriti I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 188
Further reading
[edit]- “njorka”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026