zemlja
Serbo-Croatian
/zěmʎa/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) earth
- soil
- land
- dirt
- ground
- country
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zemľa inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źemē (land, ground) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm (earth, land).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰéǵʰōm
Gloss
earth, land
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
土, 地
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- humus Latin
- земля Russian
- θεμέλιος Ancient Greek
- χαμᾶζε Ancient Greek
- χθόνιος Ancient Greek
- χθών Ancient Greek
- *dʰéǵʰōm Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰmṓ Proto-Indo-European
- ziemia Polish
- क्षम् Sanskrit
- *zemľa Proto-Slavic
- zem Czech
- země Czech
- -ak Serbo-Croatian
- bezemljaš Serbo-Croatian
- od Serbo-Croatian
- odozemak Serbo-Croatian
- tresti Serbo-Croatian
- zemljoslovlje Serbo-Croatian
- zemljotres Serbo-Croatian
- земља Serbo-Croatian
- zeme Latvian
- ցամաք Old Armenian
- земя Bulgarian
- themel Albanian
- themeloj Albanian
- *soomi Proto-Finnic
- *gdū Proto-Celtic
- земја Macedonian
- земля Ukrainian
- *ȷ́žʰā́s Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *ȷ́ʰžā́s Proto-Indo-Iranian
- zem Slovak
- Sámi Northern Sami
- зямля Belarusian
- zemlja Slovene
- землꙗ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- žemė Lithuanian
- землꙗ Old East Slavic
- zemja Lower Sorbian
- zmyk' Middle Persian
- zevî Northern Kurdish
- *źemē Proto-Balto-Slavic
- zemja Upper Sorbian
- zemia Kashubian
- ziymia Silesian
- земля Rusyn
- *tken Proto-Tocharian
- zeme Latgalian
- zemē Old Prussian
- *déǵm̥ Proto-Anatolian
- Σεμ Thracian