potomak
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian потомак (potomak). From Proto-Slavic *potomъkъ. First attested in the 19th century. [1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pǒtomak/
- Hyphenation: po‧to‧mak
Noun
pòtomak m anim (Cyrillic spelling по̀томак)
- descendant
- Antonym: predak
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | potomak | potōmci |
| genitive | potōmka | potomaka |
| dative | potomku | potomcima |
| accusative | potomka | potomke |
| vocative | potōmče | potomci |
| locative | potomku | potomcima |
| instrumental | potomkom | potomcima |
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko, Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk (2016), “potomak”, in Matasović, Ranko, editor, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume I: A – Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 182