avaj
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *uvy, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with English woe, Latin vae, Lithuanian vaĩ, Sanskrit उवे (uvé), Hittite [script needed] (uwai), Persian وای (vây).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǎʋaːj/
Interjection
àvāj (Cyrillic spelling а̀ва̄ј)
- (literary) alas!