Where does “pelikan” come from?
pelikan (Serbo-Croatian) comes from German Pelikan, from Middle High German pellicān, from Latin pelicānus,pelecānus, from Ancient Greek πελεκάν, from Ancient Greek πέλεκυς — two-edged axe for felling trees; battle axe,...
pelikan (Serbo-Croatian): pelican
Ancestry of “pelikan”, step by step