bósy
Lower Sorbian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *bosъ (“barefoot”) (compare Upper Sorbian bosy, Polish bosy, Czech bosý, Russian босой (bosoj), Old Church Slavonic босъ (bosŭ)), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *basas (compare Lithuanian bãsas, Latvian bass), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós (“naked”) (compare Old Armenian բոկ (bok, “barefoot”), Ancient Greek ψιλός (psilós, “bare”), Old English bær (“bare”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.sɨ/, /ˈbɨ.sɨ/, (dated) /ˈbʊ.sɨ/
- Rhymes: -ɛsɨ, -ɨsɨ, -ʊsɨ
- Syllabification: bó‧sy
Adjective
bósy
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | virile | nonvirile | virile | nonvirile | ||||
| animate | inanimate | |||||||||
| nominative vocative |
bósy | bóse | bósa | bósej | bóse | |||||
| genitive | bósego bóseg¹ |
bóseje bósej¹ |
bóseju | bósych | ||||||
| dative | bósemu bósem¹ |
bósej | bósyma | bósym | ||||||
| accusative | bósego bóseg¹ |
bósy | bóse | bósu | bóseju | bósej | bóse, bósych | bóse | ||
| instrumental | bósym | bóseju bósej¹ |
bósyma | bósymi | ||||||
| locative | bósem bósym² |
bósej | bósyma | bósych | ||||||
¹ poetic, colloquial
² obsolete, dialectal
Derived terms
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “bósy”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “bósy”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag