zemja

From Proto-Slavic *zemľa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źemē, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛ.mʲa/
• Rhymes: -ɛmʲa
• Syllabification: ze‧mja

zemja f (diminutive zemiska)

1. soil, earth, ground

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “zemja”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “zemja”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

zemja f (Cyrillic spelling земја)

1. archaic and Chakavian form of zèmlja (“soil, earth, ground, country”)
   • 1250, N.N, Povaljska listina:

     Dohrani na smrt na naju vinogradi i zemje.

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   • late 15th century, Džore Držić, Radmio i Ljubmir:

     Zašto u sve strane pozebe travica
     Ter zemja ostane kako udovica.

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   • (Can we date this quote?), Drago Gervais, Kastavska balada:

     Kmeti su zemju kopali,
     krepevali, gladovali,
     ježuviti spovedali
     i va nebo otpravjali.

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zemľà.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛmja/
• Rhymes: -ɛmja
• Hyphenation: zem‧ja
• Syllabification: zem‧ja

zemja f

1. (astronomy, geography) Earth (primary planet of the solar system, which we inhabit, ellipsoidal in shape with polar flattening (1/297), 6370 km of average radius and 540,082,000 km2 of surface, according to Kossina's calculation)
2. floor, ground (surface we walk on)

   Synonym: póda

   • 1896, Nowy Zakoń: Do hornjoserbsćiny po rjedźe Vulgaty prelozistaj Jurij Luscanski a Michal Hórnik‎^[1], Z nakladom towaŕstwa ss. Cyrilla a Methocija, page 150:

     Hdyž bě to prajił, pluny na zemju, a sčini błóto ze slinow, a pomaza błóto na jeho woči.

     When he had said this, he spat on the ground, and made mud of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the mud.

3. (literary) country (space demarcated by geographic borders and endowed with its own sovereignty)

   Synonym: kraj

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