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Where does “pretrpeti” come from?

pretrpeti (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian tŕpeti, from Proto-Slavic tьrpěti — to suffer; to endure.

pretrpeti (Serbo-Croatian): to endure, bear, stain, suffer

Definitions

  1. to endure, bear, stain, suffer

Ancestry of “pretrpeti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-Croatiantŕpeti—
2Proto-Slavictьrpětito suffer; to endure
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