Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pľьvati.

Cognate with Bulgarian плюя (pljuja), Slovene pljuvati, Russian плевать (plevatʹ), Slovak pľuť. Non-Slavic cognates include Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō), Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (speiwan), Albanian shpif, Sanskrit ष्ठीवति (ṣṭhīvati, to spit), Old Armenian թուք (tʿukʿ).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /pʎûʋati/
  • Hyphenation: plju‧va‧ti

Verb edit

pljȕvati impf (Cyrillic spelling пљу̏вати)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to spit

Conjugation edit

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Further reading edit

  • pljuvati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “плюю́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress