запешће

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zapęstьje (wrist, bracelet), from *za +‎ *pęstь (fist) +‎ *-ьje. First attested in the 19th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zapeʃt͡ɕe/
  • Hyphenation: за‧пеш‧ће

Noun

зáпēшће n (Latin spelling zápēšće)

  1. (anatomy) wrist

Declension

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016–2021) “запешће”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 588