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 *basás (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): /ˈbɛ.sɨ/, /ˈbɨ.sɨ/, (dated) /ˈbʊ.sɨ/
• Rhymes: -ɛsɨ, -ɨsɨ, -ʊsɨ
• Syllabification: bó‧sy

Adjective

bósy

1. barefoot

Declension

Declension of bósy

	singular					dual			plural
	masculine		neuter	feminine		virile	nonvirile		virile	nonvirile
	animate	inanimate
nominative vocative	bósy		bóse	bósa		bósej			bóse
genitive	bósego bóseg¹			bóseje bósej¹		bóseju			bósych
dative	bósemu bósem¹			bósej		bósyma			bósym
accusative	bósego bóseg¹	bósy	bóse	bósu		bóseju	bósej		bóse, bósych	bóse
instrumental	bósym			bóseju bósej¹		bósyma			bósymi
locative	bósem bósym²			bósej		bósyma			bósych

¹ poetic, colloquial
² obsolete, dialectal

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