rosć

See also: rosc, ROSC, rość, and róść

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• roscż (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *orsti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian rosć, Polish róść, Czech růst, Russian расти́ (rastí), Old Church Slavonic расти (rasti).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɔst͡ɕ/

Verb

rosć impf (perfective narosć)

1. to grow

Conjugation

Conjugation of rosć (imperfective)

Present	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	rostu rosćom	rosćomej	rosćomy
2nd person	rosćoš	rosćotej	rosćośo
3rd person	rosćo	rosćotej	rostu
Preterite	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	rosćech	rosćechmej	rosćechmy
2nd person	rosćešo	rosćeštej	rosćešćo
3rd person	rosćešo	rosćeštej	rosćechu
Imperative	Singular	Dual	Plural
2nd person	ros	rostej	rosćo

Participles

• Present: rosćecy
• Past active (“ł-form”): rosł
• Past passive: rosćony

Infinitive

rosć

Supine

rost

Verbal noun

rosćenje

Derived terms

• dorosć
• pódrosć
• pórosć
• pśerosć
• pśirosć
• rosćenje
• rosćina
• rostlina
• rozrosć
• wobrosć
• wótrosć
• wurosć
• zarosć
• zrosć

Further reading

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