Lower Sorbian

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Alternative forms

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  • bźeze (used before certain consonants and consonant clusters)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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bźez (with genitive)

  1. without

Synonyms

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Further reading

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  • 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