žorawa
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Lower Sorbian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a variant of Proto-Slavic *žeravъ (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂ōws. Cognate with Upper Sorbian žeraw, Polish żuraw, Slovak žeriav, Serbo-Croatian žèrāv, and Russian жура́вль (žurávlʹ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]žorawa f
- crane (bird)
Declension
[edit]Declension of žorawa
Further reading
[edit]- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “žorawa”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “žorawa”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag