Where does “Хрватска” come from?
Хрватска (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian Хр̀ва̄т, from Serbo-Croatian hurva — mountain.
Ancestry of “Хрватска”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Serbo-Croatian | Хр̀ва̄т | Croat |
| 2 | Serbo-Croatian | hurva | mountain |