nebosklon

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Russian небоскло́н (nebosklón). The accent nȅbosklōn is formed according to similar trisyllabic compounds.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nêboskloːn/ or IPA^(key): /nêbosklon/
• Hyphenation: ne‧bo‧sklon

Proper noun

nȅbosklōn or nȅbosklon m (Cyrillic spelling не̏боскло̄н or не̏босклон)

1. (poetic, archaic) sky, horizon
   • 1898, Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, “Prvi grijeh”, in Izabrane pjesme‎^[1], Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, page 218:

     Sve p'jesak sivi, kameniti puti
     I gore mrki, tudji nebosklon!

     All is just gray sand, rocky paths
     And above – a dark, foreign sky!

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nebosklon.

Usage notes

• Older writers likely used the form nȅbosklōn, as can be deduced from the rhymes and metre (see quotations). Dictionaries, beginning with Benešić (1949), only mention the form with shortened final syllable: nȅbosklon. HJP provides the accent nebòsklon which is an adaptation of the original Russian accent or theoretically derived from *nȅbo + *sъklònъ, but the form isn't found in poetry and such accentuation of Croatian compounds is in decline.

Declension

Declension of nebosklon

	singular	plural
nominative	nȅbosklōn	nȅbosklōni
genitive	nȅbosklōna	nȅbosklōnā
dative	nȅbosklōnu	nȅbosklōnima
accusative	nȅbosklōna	nȅbosklōne
vocative	nȅbosklōne	nȅbosklōni
locative	nȅbosklōnu	nȅbosklōnima
instrumental	nȅbosklōnom	nȅbosklōnima

References

• Tomislav Maretić, editor (1911–1916), “nebosklon”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[2] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 7, Zagreb: JAZU, page 798
• Benešić, Julije (1949) “nȅbosklon”, in Hrvatsko-poljski rječnik / Słownik chorwacko-polski, Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Hrvatske
• HJP = “nebosklon”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024