wósoba

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See also: wosoba

Lower Sorbian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Probably borrowed from Upper Sorbian wosoba, from Proto-Slavic *osoba. Cognate with Polish osoba, Czech osoba, Russian осо́ба (osóba), Serbo-Croatian ȍsoba.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈwɨsɔba/, /ˈwɛsɔba/, (dated) /ˈwʊsɔba/

Noun

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wósoba f

  1. person (an individual)

Declension

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “wósoba”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “wósoba”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
  • Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.