bźez

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms
  • bźeze (used before certain consonants and consonant clusters)

Etymology

From a conflation of pśez (“through”) with earlier bjez (still the Upper Sorbian form), from Proto-Slavic *bez.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bʑɛs/

Preposition

bźez (with genitive)

  1. without

Synonyms

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