dychaś

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• dychasch (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dyxati. Compare dych (“breath”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian dychać, Polish od-dychać, Czech dýchat, Old Church Slavonic дꙑхати (dyxati), and Russian дышать (dyšatʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɨxaɕ]

Verb

dychaś impf (perfective dychnuś)

1. to breathe (draw air in and out)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dychaś (imperfective)

Present	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	dycham	dychamej	dychamy
2nd person	dychaš	dychatej	dychaśo
3rd person	dycha	dychatej	dychaju
Preterite	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	dychach	dychachmej	dychachmy
2nd person	dychašo	dychaštej	dychašćo
3rd person	dychašo	dychaštej	dychachu
Imperative	Singular	Dual	Plural
2nd person	dychaj	dychajtej	dychajśo

Participles

• Present: dychajucy
• Past active (“ł-form”): dychał
• Past passive: dychany

Infinitive

dychaś

Supine

dychat

Verbal noun

dychanje

Derived terms

• dodychaś pf (“breathe one’s last”)
• dychadło n (“organ of breathing”)
• dychaŕ m (“breather”)
• dychaty (“short of breath”)
• dychawa f (“windpipe”)
• dychnjenje n (“a breath”)
• dychotaś impf (“breathe heavily, pant”)
• dychotaty (“short of breath”)
• dychotawy (“short of breath”)
• njedychaty (“short of breath, asthmatic”)
• pódychaś pf (“breathe weakly”)
• pózdychaś pf (“sigh”)
• wobdychaś pf (“breathe on”)
• wobzdychowaś pf (“sigh over, lament”)
• wódychaś pf (“catch one’s breath”)
• wótdychaś pf (“catch one’s breath”)
• wudychaś pf (“breathe out, exhale”)
• zadychaś pf (“breathe in”)
• zdychaś pf (“sigh”)

 

Further reading

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