srjejź

Lower Sorbian

FWOTD – 21 October 2014

Alternative forms

• srjeź (dated or dialectal)
• sŕeź (obsolete)

Etymology

From the same Proto-Slavic root *sьrd-, *serd- (“middle”) found in *sьrdьce (“heart”) and *serda (“Wednesday”). Compare Upper Sorbian srjedź, Polish wśród, Slovene srédi, and Russian среди́ (sredí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /srʲɛjɕ/, [srʲejɕ]

Preposition

srjejź [with genitive]

1. in the middle of
   • 2007-04-04, Adelheid Dawmowa, “Jańšowe jatšowne jaja su ‚wudrogowali‘ až do Awstralskeje”, Nowy Casnik vol 59, no. 14, p. 6:

     Hiltrud Jańšowa jo se srjejź 60tych lět ze swójim Günterom wóženiła.

     Hiltrud Jańšowa married her Günter in the middle of the ’60s.

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “sŕeź_3”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “srjejź”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag