kmet

kmet

English

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian kmȅt. Doublet of count and comes.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kmɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

kmet (plural kmets or kmetovi)

1. (historical) A serf on the Balkan peninsula, especially one holding land under the estate system introduced by the Ottomans and retained in some areas by Austria-Hungary.
   • 1876, Arthur John Evans, Through Bosnia and Herzegovina On Foot:

     Suffering from this double disability, social and religious, the Christian ‘kmet,’ or tiller of the soil, is worse off than many a serf in our darkest ages, and lies as completely at the mercy of the Mahometan owner of the soil as if he were a slave.

   • 1997, Michael Palairet, The Balkan Economies c. 1800-1914, Cambridge 2002, p. 206:

     The authorities repeatedly emphasized that the kmet was not bound to his master, to counter allegations equating kmet tenure with servile status.

   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 74:

     In any case, the Serbian kmets who remained within the old estate system on the eve of the First World War were not especially badly off by the standards of early twentieth-century peasant Europe […]

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kъmetь, from Latin comes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkmɛt]
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

kmet m

1. very old man

   Synonym: → stařec

Declension

Declension of kmet

	singular	plural
nominative	kmet	kmetové, kmeti
genitive	kmeta	kmetů
dative	kmetovi, kmetu	kmetům
accusative	kmeta	kmety
vocative	kmete	kmetové, kmeti
locative	kmetovi, kmetu	kmetech
instrumental	kmetem	kmety

Further reading

• kmet in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• kmet in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• kmet in Internetová jazyková příručka

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kъmetь, from Latin comes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kmêt/

Noun

kmȅt m (Cyrillic spelling кме̏т)

1. (historical) serf, peon (a working peasant on lord's estate)
2. peasant, villager
3. village major or leader

Declension

Declension of kmet

	singular	plural
nominative	kmȅt	kmètovi
genitive	kmeta	kmetova
dative	kmetu	kmetovima
accusative	kmeta	kmetove
vocative	kmete	kmetovi
locative	kmetu	kmetovima
instrumental	kmetom	kmetovima

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kъmetь, from Latin comes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kmɛ́t/

Noun

kmȅt m anim

1. peasant
2. (chess) pawn

Inflection

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	kmèt
gen. sing.	kméta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	kmèt	kméta	kmétje kméti
accusative	kméta	kméta	kméte
genitive	kméta	kmétov	kmétov
dative	kmétu	kmétoma	kmétom
locative	kmétu	kmétih	kmétih
instrumental	kmétom	kmétoma	kméti