bźez

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• bźeze (used before certain consonants and consonant clusters)

Etymology

From a conflation of pśez (“through”) with earlier bjez (still the Upper Sorbian form), from Proto-Slavic *bez.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʑɛs/

Preposition

bźez (with genitive)

1. without

Synonyms

• mimo

Further reading

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