jajce
Serbo-Croatian
/jǎːjtse/
noun
Definitions
- an egg
- (mildly) ball, testicle
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ajьce derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (egg).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂ōwyóm
Gloss
egg
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ovulum Latin
- ōva Latin
- ōvum Latin
- яйцо Russian
- τὰ ᾠά Ancient Greek
- *h₂ōwyóm Proto-Indo-European
- *ajją Proto-Germanic
- *(j)aje Proto-Slavic
- *aje, ȃje, *(j)aje Proto-Slavic
- *ajьce Proto-Slavic
- vejce Czech
- јајце Serbo-Croatian
- ձու Old Armenian
- яйце Bulgarian
- ve Albanian
- *āuyom Proto-Celtic
- *āwyom Proto-Celtic
- јајце Macedonian
- яйце Ukrainian
- *Hāwyám Proto-Indo-Iranian
- vajce Slovak
- яйка Belarusian
- яйцо Belarusian
- *ōwom Proto-Italic
- jajce Slovene
- аице Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- ꙗице Old East Slavic
- *ōyyón Proto-Hellenic
- jajco Kashubian
- яйце Rusyn
- jȧ̃i̯cä Slovincian