čekinja

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Slavic *četina. First attested in the 19th century.[1]

Noun

čèkinja f (Cyrillic spelling чѐкиња)

  1. bristle

Declension

Declension of čekinja
singular plural
nominative čekinja čekinje
genitive čekinje čekinja
dative čekinji čekinjama
accusative čekinju čekinje
vocative čekinjo čekinje
locative čekinji čekinjama
instrumental čekinjom čekinjama

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “čekinja”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 124
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