murjowaś

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• muŕowaś (obsolete)

Etymology

From murja +‎ -owaś; compare Polish murować (“to build a wall”). The sense “to play defensively in a card game” is a semantic loan from German mauern.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmurʲowaɕ]

Verb

murjowaś impf

1. to build a wall
2. to lay bricks
3. to play defensively in a card game

Conjugation

Conjugation of murjowaś (imperfective)

Present	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	murjuju murjujom	murjujomej	murjujomy
2nd person	murjujoš	murjujotej	murjujośo
3rd person	murjujo	murjujotej	murjuju
Preterite	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	murjowach	murjowachmej	murjowachmy
2nd person	murjowašo	murjowaštej	murjowašćo
3rd person	murjowašo	murjowaštej	murjowachu
Imperative	Singular	Dual	Plural
2nd person	murjuj	murjujtej	murjujśo

Participles

• Present: murjujucy
• Past active (“ł-form”): murjował
• Past passive: murjowany

Infinitive

murjowaś

Supine

murjowat

Verbal noun

murjowanje

Further reading

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