FromProto-Slavic*zemľa, fromProto-Balto-Slavic*źemē, fromProto-Indo-European*dʰéǵʰōm.
zemja f (diminutivezemiska)
- soil,earth,ground
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “zemja”, inSłownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague:ОРЯС РАН,ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag,2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “zemja”, inDolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
zemja f (Cyrillic spellingземја)
- archaic andChakavian form ofzèmlja(“soil, earth, ground, country”)
Inherited fromProto-Slavic*zemľà.
- IPA(key): /ˈzɛmja/
- Rhymes:-ɛmja
- Hyphenation:zem‧ja
- Syllabification:zem‧ja
zemja f
- (astronomy, geography)Earth(primary planet of the solar system, which we inhabit, ellipsoidal in shape with polar flattening (1/297), 6370 km of average radius and 540,082,000 km2 of surface, according to Kossina's calculation)
- floor,ground(surface we walk on)
- Synonym:póda
1896,Nowy Zakoń: Do hornjoserbsćiny po rjedźe Vulgaty prelozistaj Jurij Luscanski a Michal Hórnik[1], Z nakladom towaŕstwa ss. Cyrilla a Methocija, page150:Hdyž bě to prajił, pluny nazemju, a sčini błóto ze slinow, a pomaza błóto na jeho woči.- When he had said this, he spat on theground, and made mud of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the mud.
- (literary)country(space demarcated by geographic borders and endowed with its own sovereignty)
- Synonym:kraj
Declension ofzemja (feminine soft stem)
