nebosklon

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

From Russian небоскло́н (nebosklón). The accent nȅbosklōn is formed according to similar trisyllabic compounds.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /nêboskloːn/ or IPA^(key): /nêbosklon/
Hyphenation: ne‧bo‧sklon

Proper noun edit

nȅbosklōn or nȅbosklon m (Cyrillic spelling не̏боскло̄н or не̏босклон)

(poetic, archaic) sky, horizon
- 1845, Петаръ Петровићь Нѣгошь, Луча микрокозма‎^[1], Београдъ: Княжества Србскога кньигопечатньомъ, page 19:
  Савъ небосклонъ, што могахъ виђети,
  Міръ міровахъ бѣше напуніо
  Са своіемъ свіетліемъ шаромъ.
  Sav nebosklon, što mogah viđeti,
  Mir mirovah bješe napunio
  Sa svojijem svijetlijem šarom.
  All of heavens that I could see,
  It filled out the world of worlds
  With its shining sphere.
- 1898, Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, “Prvi grijeh”, in Izabrane pjesme‎^[2], Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, page 218:
  O mrtvo polje! — sve uokol šuti —
  O čuj mi plač i reci, gdje je on?!
  Sve p'jesak sivi, kameniti puti
  I gore mrki, tudji nebosklon!
  O, dead field! – all around is silent –
  O, hear my weeping and say, where is he?!
  All is just gray sand, rocky paths
  And above – a dark, foreign sky!
- 1907, Vladimir Vidrić, “Roblje”, in Pjesme, Zagreb: vlastita naklada, page 9:
  Stištu prsi i grče ruke,
  Okovane pružaju k nebosklonu,
  Sa tala se dižu i kažu i kažu
  Gdje sunce tone na stranu onu.
  Chests are cramping and hands are clenching,
  Bound hands are stretching out to the horizon,
  From the ground they rise and show and show
  Yonder where the Sun is setting.
- 1957, Александар Пушкин, translated by Милорад Павић, Евгеније Оњегин, Београд: Савремена школа, translation of Евгений Онегин by Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, published 1962, Друга глава, XXVIII, page 70:
  Она је радо на балкону
  Чекала кад ће зора плава
  Када на бледом небосклону
  Сазвежђа коло ишчезава
  Ona je rado na balkonu
  Čekala kad će zora plava
  Kada na bledom nebosklonu
  Sazvežđa kolo iščezava
  She loved upon the balcony
  To anticipate the break of day,
  When on the pallid eastern sky
  The starry beacons fade away [tr. H. Spalding, 1881]

Usage notes edit

Older writers likely used the form nȅbosklōn, as can be deduced from the rhymes and metre (see quotations). Dictionaries, beginning with Benešić (1949), only mention the form with shortened final syllable: nȅbosklon. HJP provides the accent nebòsklon which is an adaptation of the original Russian accent, but the form isn't found in poetry and such accentuation of Croatian compounds is in decline.

Declension edit

Declension of nebosklon

	singular	plural
nominative	nȅbosklōn	nȅbosklōni
genitive	nȅbosklōna	nȅbosklōnā
dative	nȅbosklōnu	nȅbosklōnima
accusative	nȅbosklōna	nȅbosklōne
vocative	nȅbosklōne	nȅbosklōni
locative	nȅbosklōnu	nȅbosklōnima
instrumental	nȅbosklōnom	nȅbosklōnima

References edit

Tomislav Maretić, editor (1911-1916), “nebosklon”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[3] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 7, Zagreb: JAZU, page 798
Benešić, Julije (1949) “nȅbosklon”, in Hrvatsko-poljski rječnik / Słownik chorwacko-polski, Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Hrvatske
HJP = “nebosklon” in Hrvatski jezični portal