paśpula
Appearance
Lower Sorbian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a variant of Proto-Slavic *perpelъ (“quail”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian pocpula, Polish przepiórka, Czech křepelka, Serbo-Croatian prȅpelica, and Russian пе́репел (pérepel).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]paśpula f (diminutive paśpulka)
- quail (any of several small game birds)
- (specifically) common quail (Coturnix coturnix)
Declension
[edit]declension of paśpula
Further reading
[edit]- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “paśpula”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “paśpula”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag