štap
Lower Sorbian edit
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štap
Serbo-Croatian edit
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ščapъ.[1] Cognates include Slovene ščap (“stick, cudgel”), Lower Sorbian šćap (“shepherd's staff”) and Slovak štiap (“stick, pole”). Further compare Latvian šķēps (“spear”) and Proto-Germanic *skaftaz (“shaft, spear”). Unrelated to German Stab.
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štȃp m (Cyrillic spelling шта̑п)
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Declension of štap
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- štȃp za pecanje (“fishing rod”)
References edit
- ^ Petar Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, Zagreb, 1971, v. 3, p. 412