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Where does “костурница” come from?

костурница (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian -ница, from Serbo-Croatian -а, from Proto-Slavic -a, from Proto-Indo-European -ōd.

костурница (Serbo-Croatian): ossuary, charnel house

Definitions

  1. ossuary, charnel house

Ancestry of “костурница”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-Croatian-ницаfemale equivalent of -ник
2Serbo-Croatian-аSuffix appended to words to create a feminine...
3Proto-Slavic-aid
4Proto-Indo-European-ōd—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ōd →