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Where does “lemeš” come from?

lemeš (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Proto-Slavic lemešь, from Latvian lemesis — plowshare.

lemeš (Serbo-Croatian): plowshare

Definitions

  1. plowshare

Ancestry of “lemeš”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slaviclemešьploughshare; plough
2Latvianlemesisplowshare
Every word from Latvian lemesis →