blesti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *blęsti (“talk nonsense, err”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blenstei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blesti/
  • Hyphenation: ble‧sti

Verb

blesti impf (Cyrillic spelling блести)

  1. (intransitive, archaic) to blather, to talk foolishly [From XVI century.]
  2. (intransitive, archaic) to blaspheme [From XVI century.]
  3. (intransitive, archaic) to bleat, to baa [From XVI century.]

Synonyms

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