Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *košьnica.[1] From koš (basket) +‎ -nica.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kôʃnit͡sa/
  • Hyphenation: ko‧šni‧ca
  • Rhymes: -it͡sa

Noun

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kȍšnica f (Cyrillic spelling ко̏шница)

  1. beehive

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “košnica”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 487

Further reading

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  • košnica” in Hrvatski jezični portal