English
Mostar
Mostar comes from Serbo-Croatian Mostar.
- Serbo-CroatianmodernMostarliterally ‘bridgekeeper’
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Serbo-CroatianmodernMostarliterally ‘bridgekeeper’
- Englishtodaysame form
The story
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Mostar (literally “bridgekeeper”).
Every English word from Serbo-Croatian Mostar
Today it means
name A large city on the Neretva river in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Serbo-Croatian Mostar / Mostar