bridki
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *bridъkъ (“sharp”). Cognate with Polish brzydki (“ugly”), Czech břitký (“cutting, sharp”), Serbo-Croatian brȉdak (“cutting, sharp”), and Ukrainian бридки́й (brydkýj, “disgusting, ugly”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbrʲitkʲi/
Adjective
bridki
- (dialectal) disgusting
- (dialectal) ugly
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | virile | nonvirile | virile | nonvirile | ||||
| animate | inanimate | |||||||||
| nominative vocative |
bridki | bridke | bridka | bridkej | bridke | |||||
| genitive | bridkego bridkeg¹ |
bridkeje bridkej¹ |
bridkeju | bridkich | ||||||
| dative | bridkemu bridkem¹ |
bridkej | bridkima | bridkim | ||||||
| accusative | bridkego bridkeg¹ |
bridki | bridke | bridku | bridkeju | bridkej | bridke, bridkich | bridke | ||
| instrumental | bridkim | bridkeju bridkej¹ |
bridkima | bridkimi | ||||||
| locative | bridkem bridkim² |
bridkej | bridkima | bridkich | ||||||
¹ poetic, colloquial
² obsolete, dialectal
Synonyms
- (disgusting): žadławy
- (ugly): grozny
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “bridki”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “bridki”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag