sjeme

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěmę, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sjême/
  • Hyphenation: sje‧me

Noun

sjȅme n (Cyrillic spelling сје̏ме)

  1. seed
  2. semen
  3. spawn, milt
  4. offspring

Declension

Declension of sjeme
singular plural
nominative sjȅme sjemena
genitive sjȅmena sjemena
dative sjemenu sjemenima
accusative sjeme sjemena
vocative sjeme sjemena
locative sjemenu sjemenima
instrumental sjemenom sjemenima

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “sjȅme”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 343

Further reading

  • sjeme”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025