Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *secьkati, which is a dimunitive form of sjeći.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sjêt͡skati/
  • Hyphenation: sje‧cka‧ti

Verb

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sjȅckati impf (Cyrillic spelling сје̏цкати)

  1. to chop up, cut into little pieces

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “sjȅckati”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 342

Further reading

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  • sjeckati” in Hrvatski jezični portal