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)

  1. descendant
    Antonym: predak

Declension

Declension of potomak
singular plural
nominative potomak potōmci
genitive potōmka potomaka
dative potomku potomcima
accusative potomka potomke
vocative potōmče potomci
locative potomku potomcima
instrumental potomkom potomcima

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016), “potomak”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 182