byś

See also: bys and Byś

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *byti

Verb

byś impf

1. to be

Conjugation

Conjugation of byś

Present	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	som	smej	smy
2nd person	sy	stej	sćo
3rd person	jo	stej	su
Present negative	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	njejsom	njejsmej	njejsmy
2nd person	njejsy	njejstej	njejsćo
3rd person	njejo	njejstej	njejsu
Future	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	buźom / budu	buźomej	buźomy
2nd person	buźoš	buźotej	buźośo
3rd person	buźo	buźotej	budu
Passive	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	buch	buchmej	buchmy
2nd person	bu	buštej	bušćo
3rd person	bu	buštej	buchu
Preterite	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	běch	běchmej	běchmy
2nd person	běšo	běštej	běšćo
3rd person	běšo	běštej	běchu
Imperative	Singular	Dual	Plural
2nd person	buź	buźtej	buźćo

Participles

• Present: buducy
• Past active (“ł-form”): był

Infinitive

byś

Supine

byt

Verbal noun

byśe

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921) “byś”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), volume 1, St. Petersburg: ОРЯС РАН, page 102; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “byś”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɘɕ/

• (Masovia):
  • (Near Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɘɕ/

• Rhymes: -ɘɕ
• Syllabification: byś
• Homophone: Byś

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

byś

1. (Near Masovian, often repeated) used to direct oxen to stop

   Coordinate terms: eć, he, kse

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Conjunction

byś

1. Combined form of by + -ś

Further reading

• Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “byś”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 372