nesmo
Serbo-Croatian
editAlternative forms
edit- (Standard Bosnian, Standard Croatian, Standard Serbian) nísmo
- (Standard Montenegrin) nijèsmo
- (historical, regional) nijésmo
Etymology
editFrom Proto-Slavic *ne + *esmъ, first-person plural present tense form of *byti. This formation later created *ne jesmъ in the South Slavic vernaculars, which merged to become něsmo (attested in 1395). Because of the yat reflex, něsmo became rendered as nesmo in Ekavian speeches.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editnésmo (Cyrillic spelling не́смо)
References
edit- The template Template:R:sh:RJA does not use the parameter(s):
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “jesam”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 606