in my native tongue:

croat...

    is transliterated

  as...

        horwat:

       (not *****,
similis of how, with an R,

and V.A.T. -

          vat):

   harking H,
   passing omicron,
trilled R:

and sharpened upsilon:
via, exactly: vat -

    horvat.

and if they do fail:
we can finally attain
the english asking
for the post-modernist
french bellowing
of defining a ball,
a sphere, an earth,

a "something".