bósy

See also: bosy and bosý

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• bossy, bosy (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bosъ (“barefoot”) (compare Upper Sorbian bosy, Polish bosy, Czech bosý, Russian босой (bosoj), Old Church Slavonic босъ (bosŭ)), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *basas (compare Lithuanian bãsas, Latvian bass), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós (“naked”) (compare Old Armenian բոկ (bok, “barefoot”), Ancient Greek ψιλός (psilós, “bare”), Old English bær (“bare”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɨsɨ/, /ˈbɛsɨ/, (dated) /ˈbʊsɨ/

Adjective

bósy

1. barefoot

Declension

Declension of bósy

	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Neuter singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	bósy	bósa	bóse	bósej	bóse
Genitive	bósego	bóseje	bósego	bóseju	bósych
Dative	bósemu	bósej	bósemu	bósyma	bósym
Accusative	bósy bósego (animate)	bósu	bóse	bósej bóseju (animate)	bóse bósych (optional animate form)
Instrumental	bósym	bóseju	bósym	bósyma	bósymi
Locative	bósem	bósej	bósem	bósyma	bósych

Derived terms

• bósučki

Further reading

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