jegulja

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin anguilla. Partly by folk etymology; the end of the Latin source being interpreted as if representing the native feminine suffix -ulja.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jěɡuʎa/
  • Hyphenation: je‧gu‧lja

Noun

jègulja f (Cyrillic spelling јѐгуља)

  1. eel

Declension
Declension of jegulja
singular plural
nominative jegulja jegulje
genitive jegulje jegulja
dative jegulji jeguljama
accusative jegulju jegulje
vocative jeguljo jegulje
locative jegulji jeguljama
instrumental jeguljom jeguljama

References
  • “jegulja” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Latin anguilla.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jɛɡùːlja/

Noun

jegúlja f

  1. eel

Inflection
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. jegúlja
gen. sing. jegúlje
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)		 jegúlja jegúlji jegúlje
genitive
(rodȋlnik)		 jegúlje jegúlj jegúlj
dative
(dajȃlnik)		 jegúlji jegúljama jegúljam
accusative
(tožȋlnik)		 jegúljo jegúlji jegúlje
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)		 jegúlji jegúljah jegúljah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)		 jegúljo jegúljama jegúljami

Further reading
  • “jegulja”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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