paśpula
Lower Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
From a variant of Proto-Slavic *perpelъ (“quail”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian pocpula, Polish przepiórka, Czech křepelka, Serbo-Croatian prȅpelica, and Russian пе́репел (pérepel).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
paśpula f animal (diminutive paśpulka)
- quail (any of several small game birds)
- (specifically) common quail (Coturnix coturnix)
Declension edit
declension of paśpula
Further reading edit
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “paśpula”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “paśpula”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag