uz
See also: Appendix:Variations of "uz"
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uz
English edit
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uz
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Galician edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin ulex, itself from a local substrate language. Compare Portuguese urze, Spanish urce.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
uz f (plural uces)
- (botany) heather (especially any of several shrub species in the genus Erica)
- 1458, José-Luis Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 413:
- et abedes de leuantar enno dicto lugar huna casa enno dicto lugar, de pedra, cuberta de huzes et de culmo
- You should build there a house at that place, made of stone, covered with heather and thatch
- 1986, Constantino García, Grilos e ralos, rans albariñas in Actas do Congresso internacional de estudos sobre Rosalia de Castro e o seu tempo, volume 3, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 78:
- Dado que existe toxo albar e que albar e mesmo albariña significa nalgunhas zonas de Galicia uz, carpaza, breixo, penso que cabería tamén a posibilidade de interpreta-las rans albariñas como rans dos breixos.
- Considering that there is toxo albar and that albar and even albariña mean, in some regions of Galicia, heather, rockrose, heaths, I think we could also interpret rans albariñas as rockrose frogs.
- Spanish heath (Erica australis)
- Synonym: uz moura
- tree heath (Erica arborea)
- Synonym: uz branca
- Erica scoparia
- heather (Calluna vulgaris)
- Synonym: queiroa
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “huzes” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “uzal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “uz” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “uz” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “uz” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Latvian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *uź.
Preposition edit
uz (with accusative or genitive)
Old High German edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *ūt, whence also Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old Dutch, Old English ūt, Old Norse út, Gothic 𐌿𐍄 (ūt).
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ūz
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ūz
- out of
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Romanian edit
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Noun edit
uz n (plural uzuri)
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Declension of uz
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Serbo-Croatian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъz (Russian воз- (voz-), Polish wz-). Cognate with Lithuanian už.
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Preposition edit
uz (Cyrillic spelling уз) (+ accusative case)
- up, upward
- ići uz stepenice ― to go upstairs
- uz brdo ― uphill
- uz r(ij)eku ― upriver
- peti/penjati se uz konopac ― to climb a rope
- next to, beside, alongside, by
- uz cestu ― next to the road
- uza samu granicu ― on the very border
- with, while, along with (circumstances or conditions accompanying the action)
- uz sm(ij)eh/plač ― with laughter/crying
- uz p(j)esmu ― while singing
- uz piće ― with a drink; while having a drink
- p(j)evati uz klavir ― to sing while the piano is playing
- in spite of, despite (= pȍred)
- uza sve to ― despite all that
Usage notes edit
The variant form uza is used before enclitics and consonants that would make it difficult to pronounce.
Related terms edit
References edit
- “uz” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Yola edit
Pronoun edit
uz
- Alternative form of ouse
- 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, line 10:
- Thaar's no own aal to taak uz thaar.
- There's no one at all to take us there,
References edit
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 131