kolovoz

Serbo-Croatian

FWOTD – 29 August 2017

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kolovozъ (“rut, wheel track”). Equivalent to kȍlo (“wheel, cart wheel”) + vȏz (“cart load”), vòziti (“to drive”), thus denoting the month in which mowed grain is being carried.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kôloʋoːz/
  • Hyphenation: ko‧lo‧voz

Noun

kȍlovōz m (Cyrillic spelling ко̏лово̄з)

  1. carriageway
  2. (Croatia) August
    u kolovozu ― in August
    petnaestog kolovoza ― on the fifteenth of August
    • 2015, Pavao Pavličić, Diksilend
      Mora biti da je bio kolovoz, doba kad Vukovar miriše na svježe paprike što se prodaju na tržnici, na pečene što cvrče na ...

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