guja
See also: Guja
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡuj.ja/
- Rhymes: -ujja
Noun
guja
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *guja (“milk-drinking snake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷówyeh₂, a derivative of *gʷówyos (“pertaining to cows”). The semantic link between a "snake" and "cow" is resolved by noting the existence of folk beliefs among Slavs that snakes could consume cow milk. This same etymology also underlies Latin boa, a snake also subject to similar beliefs in Roman folklore.
For further information, see Witczak, Kowalski and Rychło (2023).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡǔːja/
- Hyphenation: gu‧ja
Noun
gúja f (Cyrillic spelling гу́ја)
- (literary or colloquial) serpent, snake, adder
- (regional) worm, earthworm
- venomous snake in the family Elapidae
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | guja | guje |
| genitive | guje | guja |
| dative | guji | gujama |
| accusative | guju | guje |
| vocative | gujo | guje |
| locative | guji | gujama |
| instrumental | gujom | gujama |
References
- ^ Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz; Kowalski, Andrzej; Rychło, Mikołaj (2023), “Dwa południowosłowiańskie herpetonimy w oświetleniu językoznawczym i etnograficznym (psł. *korvosъsъ 'wąż Eskulapa', *guja 'wąż, żmija') [Two South Slavic herpetonyms in an etymological and ethnographic light (Proto-Slavic *korvosъsъ 'Aesculapian snake', *guja 'snake, viper')]”, in Slavistična revija (in Polish), volume 71, number 4, , →ISSN, pages 355–368
Further reading
- “guja”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026