znamje
Lower Sorbian
FWOTD – 31 May 2013
Alternative forms
- znaḿe (superseded)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *znamę. By surface analysis, znaś (“to know”) + -mje. Cognate with Upper Sorbian znamjo, Polish znamię, and Old Czech známě.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈznamʲɛ/, [ˈznamʲə]
Noun
znamje n inan (genitive singular znamjenja, diminutive znamješko)
- mark, characteristic
- 2007-04-04, “Pyšnjenje jatšownych jajkow”, Nowy Casnik vol 59, no. 14, p. 7:
- Pśi tom móžośo zgóniś, kaki pótajmny wóznam maju znamjenja na jajkach.
- That is where you can find out what secret meaning the marks on the eggs have.
- 2007-04-04, “Pyšnjenje jatšownych jajkow”, Nowy Casnik vol 59, no. 14, p. 7:
- a distinguishing or characteristic landmark
- 1998, Erwin Hannusch, chapter 1, in Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, →ISBN, page 20:
- Wón jo znamje Chóśebuza.
- It is the distinguishing landmark of Cottbus.
- mole (dark spot on the skin)
Declension
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “znaḿe”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “znamje”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
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