słon

See also: slon, Slon, słón, słoń, Słoń, słóń, s'lon, šłȫn, and śłön

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Upper Sorbian słon, from Proto-Slavic *slonъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [swɔn]

Noun

słon m animal

  1. (literary) elephant

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • słonowy

References

  • Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “słon”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “słon”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *slonъ.

Noun

słon m animal

  1. elephant

Descendants

  • Lower Sorbian: słon

Further reading

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