wucyś

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• hucyś, huzysch, wuzysch (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *učiti. Cognate with Upper Sorbian wučić, Polish uczyć, Czech učit, Russian учить (učitʹ), Old Church Slavonic оучити (učiti), Serbo-Croatian učiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈut͡sɨɕ/

Verb

wucyś impf (perfective nawucyś)

1. to teach

Conjugation

Conjugation of wucyś (imperfective)

Present	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	wucym	wucymej	wucymy
2nd person	wucyš	wucytej	wucyśo
3rd person	wucy	wucytej	wuce
Preterite	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	wucach	wucachmej	wucachmy
2nd person	wucašo	wucaštej	wucašćo
3rd person	wucašo	wucaštej	wucachu
Imperative	Singular	Dual	Plural
2nd person	wuc	wuctej	wucćo

Participles

• Present: wucecy
• Past active (“ł-form”): wucył
• Past passive: wucony

Infinitive

wucyś

Supine

wucyt

Verbal noun

wucenje

Derived terms

Derived terms

• dowucyś
• nawucyś
• pówucyś
• pśiwucyś
• rozwucyś
• wótwucyś
• wucabnik
• wucabny
• wucaŕ
• wucba
• wucbnica
• wucbny
• wucenje
• wuceński
• wucony
• wucydło
• wuwucyś
• zwucyś

Further reading

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