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
Ancestry of “костурница”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Serbo-Croatian | -ница | female equivalent of -ник |
| 2 | Serbo-Croatian | -а | Suffix appended to words to create a feminine... |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | -a | id |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōd | — |