dojś

See also: DOJs

Lower Sorbian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *dojiti, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian dejić, Polish doić, Czech dojit, Russian дои́ть (doítʹ), and Old Church Slavonic доити (doiti).

Verb

dojś impf (perfective pódojś)

  1. to milk (express milk from [a mammal])
Conjugation
Conjugation of dojś (perfective)
singular dual plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present dojm dojš doj dojmej dojtej dojtej dojmy dojśo doje
preterite dojach dojašo dojašo dojachmej dojaštej dojaštej dojachmy dojašćo dojachu
imperative doj dojtej dojśo
infinitive dojś
verbal noun dojenje, dojśe
supine dojt
participle present dojecy
past active (“ł-form”) dojł
past passive dojty

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *dojьti (compare Russian дойти (dojti)), from *do + *jьti. By surface analysis, do- +‎ hyś.

Verb

dojś pf (imperfective dochadaś)

  1. to go to, to visit
  2. to come to, to arrive at, to reach
Conjugation

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “dojś”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999), “dojś”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag