pjerina

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• ṕerina (obsolete)

Etymology

pjero (“feather”) +‎ -ina; cognate with Old Church Slavonic перина (perina, “pillow”), Upper Sorbian pjerina, Polish pierzyna, Czech peřina (“feather bed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʲɛrʲina/, [ˈpʲerʲina]

Noun

pjerina f animal

1. fowl, poultry

Declension

Declension of pjerina

	singular (uncountable)
Nominative	pjerina
Genitive	pjeriny
Dative	pjerinje
Accusative	pjerinu
Instrumental	pjerinu
Locative	pjerinje

Further reading

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