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gomila

Pronunciation: /ɡǒmila/

“gomila” is a Serbo-Croatian word. Its 14 meanings in English:

noun

  1. tumulus, barrow, burial mound or cairn
  2. specifically, a heap of stones used as a marker to delineate the borders of a medieval estate
  3. hill
  4. ruins of a house or city razed so that no stone is left atop any other
  5. (by metaphor) place containing ruins of houses destroyed by earthquake
  6. (by metonymy) refuse thrown into the ruins of earthquake-destroyed houses
  7. stones thrown at one who is being stoned
  8. wall of stone built without mortar or lime, especially one by the seashore
  9. pile, heap, any disordered multitude of collected inanimate objects, especially formerly animate objects
  10. crowd, mob, throng, host, any disordered collection of living things
  11. multitude of abstract things
  12. place where garbage or dung is collected, dungyard, dunghill
  13. curse used for lazy relatives
  14. the people, the popular mass as a whole

Etymology

By metathesis from mogila, from Proto-Slavic *mogyla (“burial mound”). An alternative proposed etymology takes the metathesized form as primary and so derives gomila from a Proto-Slavic *gomyla, perhaps with influence from *gomolь, *gomola (“lump, pile”); see the etymology notes at gòmolj and Proto-Slavic *mogyla.

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