cerwjeny
See also: čerwjeny
Lower Sorbian
Alternative forms
- cerẃeny, zerwény (obsolete)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *čьrvenъ, passive participle of *čьrviti (“to dye red”), from *čьrvь (“worm”), certain worms being used to manufacture red dye.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɛrvʲɛnɨ/
Adjective
cerwjeny (comparative cerwjeńšy, superlative nejcerwjeńšy)
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | virile | nonvirile | virile | nonvirile | ||||
| animate | inanimate | |||||||||
| nominative vocative |
cerwjeny | cerwjene | cerwjena | cerwjenej | cerwjene | |||||
| genitive | cerwjenego cerwjeneg¹ |
cerwjeneje cerwjenej¹ |
cerwjeneju | cerwjenych | ||||||
| dative | cerwjenemu cerwjenem¹ |
cerwjenej | cerwjenyma | cerwjenym | ||||||
| accusative | cerwjenego cerwjeneg¹ |
cerwjeny | cerwjene | cerwjenu | cerwjeneju | cerwjenej | cerwjene, cerwjenych | cerwjene | ||
| instrumental | cerwjenym | cerwjeneju cerwjenej¹ |
cerwjenyma | cerwjenymi | ||||||
| locative | cerwjenem cerwjenym² |
cerwjenej | cerwjenyma | cerwjenych | ||||||
¹ poetic, colloquial
² obsolete, dialectal
Derived terms
- cerwjena bušanka f (“ragged robin”)
- Cerwjena gwězda f (“Mars”)
- cerwjena jagoda f (“lingonberry”)
- cerwjena wjerba f (“white dogwood”)
- cerwjenak m (“redhead”)
- cerwjenawa f (“something colored red”)
- Cerwjenawka f (“Little Red Riding Hood”)
- cerwjene marzlicki pl (“rubella”)
- cerwjene měso n (“lean meat”)
- cerwjene pódsłyńco n (“sunset”)
- cerwjenik m (“sorrel horse”)
- cerwjenina f (“erysipeloid”)
- cerwjeniś impf (“to redden (transitive)”)
- cerwjenity (“reddish”)
- cerwjenjeś impf (“to redden (intransitive)”)
- cerwjenka f (“red ant”)
- cerwjenkowaty (“reddish”)
- cerwjenolickaty (“red-cheeked”)
- cerwjenopisany (“red patterned”)
- cerwjenosć f (“redness”)
- cerwjenosmugaty (“red striped”)
- cerwjenowaty (“reddish”)
- cerwjenowłosaty (“red-haired”)
- cerwjenowy (“wine-red”)
- cerwjenučki (“bright red”)
- cerwjeny muž m (“scarlet pimpernel”)
- cerwjeny tuk m (“ham”)
- cerwjeńca f (“common roach”)
Related terms
- cerwjeń f (“redness, the color red”)
Further reading
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “cerwjeny”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag