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Where does “lomiti” come from?

lomiti (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Proto-Slavic lomiti, from Proto-Indo-European h₃lemH- — broken; weak, broken, soft.

lomiti (Serbo-Croatian): to break, crack

Definitions

  1. to break, crack

Ancestry of “lomiti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slaviclomitito break
2Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃lemH-broken; weak, broken, soft

Words derived from “lomiti”

  • slomiti
  • zalomiti
  • nalomiti
  • vratoloman
  • prelomiti
  • prolomiti
  • glavolomka
  • razlomiti
  • izlomiti
  • odlomiti
  • polomiti
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