ланец

Macedonian

Etymology

From Middle High German lanne (“chain”) +‎ -ец (-ec), the Middle High German from Old High German lanna (“metal sheet, platelet; chain”), from Vulgar Latin lanna from Latin lāmina (“sheet especially of metal”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian ла́нац (“chain”), Slovene lanec (“chain”), Bulgarian ланец (lanec, “golden or silver chain”), South and Western Russian ланцу́г (lancúg, “chain”), Belarusian ланцу́г (lancúh, “chain”), Ukrainian ланцю́г (lancjúh, “chain”), Polish łańcuch (“chain”), Czech and Slovak lano (“cable, rope”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫanɛt͡s]

Noun

ланец • (lanec) m (plural ланци, diminutive ланче, augmentative ланчиште)

1. chain
2. (by extension) leash

Declension

Declension of ланец

	singular	plural
indefinite	ланец	ланци
definite unspecified	ланецот	ланците
definite proximal	ланецов	ланциве
definite distal	ланецон	ланцине
vocative	ланецу	ланци
count form	—	ланеца