wumrěś

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

  • humrėsch, humŕeś, humrěś (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *umerti (compare Lower Sorbian wumrěć, Polish umrzeć, Czech umřít, Russian умереть (umeretʹ), Old Church Slavonic оумрѣти (umrěti)), from *merti, from Proto-Indo-European *mer-. By surface analysis, wu- + mrěś.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈumrʲɪɕ/

Verb

wumrěś pf (imperfective wuměraś)

  1. to die

Conjugation

References

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