gomila

Serbo-Croatian

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.

gòmila f (Cyrillic spelling го̀мила)

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

Declension of gomila

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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.}Pero Budmani, editor (1887–1891), “gòmila”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 3, Zagreb: JAZU, page 264