cuś
See also: Appendix:Variations of "cus"
Lower Sorbian
Alternative forms
- zusch (obsolete)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *čuti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian čuć (“to feel”), Polish czuć (“to feel”), Russian чуять (čujatʹ, “to smell, feel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡suɕ/
- Rhymes: -uɕ
- Syllabification: cuś
Verb
cuś impf
- to feel (sense by touch; experience an emotion or other mental state about)
- to smell (sense with the nose)
Conjugation
Conjugation of cuś (imperfective)
| Present | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | cuju cujom |
cujomej | cujomy |
| 2nd person | cujoš | cujotej | cujośo |
| 3rd person | cujo | cujotej | cuju |
| Preterite | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| 1st person | cujach | cujachmej | cujachmy |
| 2nd person | cujašo | cujaštej | cujašćo |
| 3rd person | cujašo | cujaštej | cujachu |
| Imperative | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| 2nd person | cuj | cujtej | cujśo |
- Participles
- Present: cujucy
- Past active (“ł-form”): cuł
- Past passive: cuty
- Infinitive
- cuś
- Supine
- cut
- Verbal noun
- cuśe
Derived terms
- cujabny (“sensitive”)
- cujawa f (“sense of smell”)
- wucuś pf (“to feel, smell; tolerate, like”)
- zacuś pf (“to feel, smell, taste”)
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “cuś”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “cuś”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag