ками

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kamy, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō, preserving the reflex of word-final */y/, which was lost in standard words ка̑м and ка̏ме̄н.

Noun

ками m (Latin spelling kami)

  1. stone

References
  • Skok, Petar (1972) “ками”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (K – poni¹), Zagreb: JAZU, page 26
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