bósy

See also: bosy and bosý

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): /ˈbɨsɨ/, /ˈbɛsɨ/, (dated) /ˈbʊsɨ/

Adjective

bósy

  1. barefoot

Declension

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
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