cuś

See also: cus, CUs, čus, and -cus

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms
  • zusch (obsolete)

Etymology

Cognate with Upper Sorbian čuć (“to feel”), Polish czuć (“to feel”), Russian чуять (čujatʹ, “to smell, feel”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [tsuɕ]

Verb

cuś impf

  1. to feel (sense by touch; experience an emotion or other mental state about)
  2. to smell (sense with the nose)

Conjugation
Conjugation of cuś (imperfective)
Present Singular Dual Plural
1st person cuju
cujom		 cujomej cujomy
2nd person cujoš cujotej cujośo
3rd person cujo cujotej cuju
Preterite Singular Dual Plural
1st person cujach cujachmej cujachmy
2nd person cujašo cujaštej cujašćo
3rd person cujašo cujaštej cujachu
Imperative Singular Dual Plural
2nd person cuj cujtej cujśo
Participles
  • Present: cujucy
  • Past active (“ł-form”): cuł
  • Past passive: cuty
Infinitive
cuś
Supine
cut
Verbal noun
cuśe

Derived terms
  • cujabny (“sensitive”)
  • cujawa f (“sense of smell”)
  • wucuś pf (“to feel, smell; tolerate, like”)
  • zacuś pf (“to feel, smell, taste”)

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