Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěmę, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sjême/
  • Hyphenation: sje‧me

Noun

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sjȅme n (Cyrillic spelling сје̏ме)

  1. seed
  2. semen
  3. spawn, milt
  4. offspring

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “sjȅme”, 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 343

Further reading

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  • sjeme”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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