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”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lǎːnat͡s/
  • Hyphenation: la‧nac

Noun

lánac m inan (Cyrillic spelling ла́нац, relational adjective lànčanī)

  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

References

  1. ^ Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “lanac”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 368
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