wósoba

See also: wosoba

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms
  • wosoba (superseded)
  • wossoba (obsolete)

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Upper Sorbian wosoba, from Proto-Slavic *osoba. Cognate with Polish osoba, Czech osoba, Russian осо́ба (osóba), Serbo-Croatian ȍsoba.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈwɨsɔba/, /ˈwɛsɔba/, (dated) /ˈwʊsɔba/

Noun

wósoba f pers

  1. person (an individual)

Declension
Declension of wósoba
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative wósoba wósobje wósoby
Genitive wósoby wósobowu wósobow
Dative wósobje wósoboma wósobam
Accusative wósobu wósobje wósoby
Instrumental wósobu wósoboma wósobami
Locative wósobje wósoboma wósobach

Synonyms
  • paršona

Derived terms
  • wósobina
  • wósobnosć
  • wósobowy

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