Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьrny.[1]

Noun

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žrvanj m (Cyrillic spelling жрвањ)

  1. millstone
  2. grindstone

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “žrvanj”, 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 625