žlna

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

žlna f (Cyrillic spelling жлна)

1. Obsolete spelling of žuna.

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьlna (“green woodpecker”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gilˀnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒɫ̩na/

Noun

žlna f (genitive singular žlny, nominative plural žlny, genitive plural žĺn, declension pattern of žena)

1. green woodpecker (Picus viridis)

Declension

Declension of žlna

	singular	plural
nominative	žlna	žlny
genitive	žlny	žĺn
dative	žlne	žlnám
accusative	žlnu	žlny
locative	žlne	žlnách
instrumental	žlnou	žlnami

Derived terms

• žlní

References

• “žlna”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024