Lower Sorbian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From murja +‎ -owaś; compare Polish murować (to build a wall). The sense to play defensively in a card game is a semantic loan from German mauern.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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murjowaś impf

  1. to build a wall
  2. to lay bricks
  3. to play defensively in a card game

Conjugation

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Further reading

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