cuś

See also: cus, CUs, čus, and -cus

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• zusch (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čuti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian čuć (“to feel”), Polish czuć (“to feel”), Russian чуять (čujatʹ, “to smell, feel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tsuɕ]

Verb

cuś impf

1. to feel (sense by touch; experience an emotion or other mental state about)
2. to smell (sense with the nose)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cuś (imperfective)

Present	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	cuju cujom	cujomej	cujomy
2nd person	cujoš	cujotej	cujośo
3rd person	cujo	cujotej	cuju
Preterite	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	cujach	cujachmej	cujachmy
2nd person	cujašo	cujaštej	cujašćo
3rd person	cujašo	cujaštej	cujachu
Imperative	Singular	Dual	Plural
2nd person	cuj	cujtej	cujśo

Participles

• Present: cujucy
• Past active (“ł-form”): cuł
• Past passive: cuty

Infinitive

cuś

Supine

cut

Verbal noun

cuśe

Derived terms

• cujabny (“sensitive”)
• cujawa f (“sense of smell”)
• wucuś pf (“to feel, smell; tolerate, like”)
• zacuś pf (“to feel, smell, taste”)

Further reading

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