nijesmo
Serbo-Croatian
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editEtymology
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 nijesmo in Ijekavian speeches.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editnijésmo, nijèsmo (Cyrillic spelling није́смо, нијѐсмо)
- (historical, literary) negative first-person plural present of biti
References
edit- “nijesmo” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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Pero Budmani, editor (1892-1897), “jesam”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 606