avaj

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *uvy, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with English woe, Latin vae, Lithuanian vaĩ, Sanskrit उवे (uvé), Hittite [script needed] (uwai), Persian وای (vây).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎʋaːj/

Interjection

àvāj (Cyrillic spelling а̀ва̄ј)

1. (literary) alas!