šurowaś

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Middle Low German schuren (“to rub, scrub”). Cognate with English scour; see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃurowaɕ]

Verb

šurowaś impf (perfective zešurowaś)

1. to rub

Conjugation

Conjugation of šurowaś (imperfective)

Present	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	šuruju šurujom	šurujomej	šurujomy
2nd person	šurujoš	šurujotej	šurujośo
3rd person	šurujo	šurujotej	šuruju
Preterite	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	šurowach	šurowachmej	šurowachmy
2nd person	šurowašo	šurowaštej	šurowašćo
3rd person	šurowašo	šurowaštej	šurowachu
Imperative	Singular	Dual	Plural
2nd person	šuruj	šurujtej	šurujśo

Participles

• Present: šurujucy
• Past active (“ł-form”): šurował
• Past passive: šurowany

Infinitive

šurowaś

Supine

šurowat

Verbal noun

šurowanje

References

• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “šurowaś”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.