Etymology

Chakavian

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Today it means: speaker of Chakavian, or a native of southern and coastal Croatia. Full definition →

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The story

From the Serbo-Croatian interrogative pronoun ča (“what”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.