duś

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dus"

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• dusch (obsolete)

Etymology

From Late Proto-Slavic *dǫti from earlier *dъm-ti, from the root of *dymъ (“smoke”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian duć and Russian дуть (dutʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duɕ/

Verb

duś impf (perfective dunuś)

1. to blow (produce an air current)

Conjugation

Conjugation of duś (imperfective)

Present	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	duju dujom	dujomej	dujomy
2nd person	dujoš	dujotej	dujośo
3rd person	dujo	dujotej	duju
Preterite	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	dujach	dujachmej	dujachmy
2nd person	dujašo	dujaštej	dujašćo
3rd person	dujašo	dujaštej	dujachu
Imperative	Singular	Dual	Plural
2nd person	duj	dujtej	dujśo

Participles

• Present: dujucy
• Past active (“ł-form”): duł
• Past passive: duty

Infinitive

duś

Supine

dut

Verbal noun

duśe

Derived terms

• dujarski (“pertaining to blowing”)
• dujaŕ m (“wind instrument player”)
• naduś pf (“blow up”)
• póduś pf (“blow gently”)
• pózaduś pf (“blow out”)
• pśeduś pf (“blow through”)
• rozduś pf (“blow away”)
• wobduś pf (“blow over”)
• wóduś pf (“blow away”)
• wótduś pf (“blow away”)
• wuduś pf (“blow away”)
• zaduś pf (“blow out”)
• zduś pf (“blow away”)

 

Further reading

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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duɕ/
• Rhymes: -uɕ
• Syllabification: duś
• Homophone: Duś

Verb

duś

1. second-person singular imperative of dusić