smert

smert

1. imperative of smerte

Inherited from Old English smeart, from Proto-West Germanic *smart, from Proto-Germanic *smartaz. Forms in -e- reflect the usual development of OE -ea- in some dialects, but are probably largely due to the influence of smerten.

• smart, smarte, smært, smeart, smerte

• IPA^(key): /smɛrt/, /smart/

smert (plural and weak singular smerte, comparative smerter, superlative smertest)

1. painful, hurtful, punishing, injurious
2. difficult, troubling, distressing
3. strong, aggressive
4. damaging, violent, powerful, intense, raging
5. (Late Middle English) quick, speedy, alert
6. (rare) rough, raw

• smerten

• English: smart (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: smert

• “smert, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-27.

smert

1. Alternative form of smerte

smert f (Cyrillic spelling смерт)

1. (Kajkavian) death

   Synonym: smrt

   • 1936, Miroslav Krleža, Petrica i galženjaki:

     Tak je na svetu da za najvekšeg suca
     smert se s kosum vre okolo smuca.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)