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

1. to feel (sense by touch; experience an emotion or other mental state about)
2. to smell (sense with the nose)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cuś (imperfective, class 66)

Present	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	cuju, cujom	cujomej	cujomy
2nd person	cujoš	cujotej	cujośo
3rd person	cujo		cuju
Preterite	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	cujachmej	cuchmej	cujachmy
2nd person	cujašo	cujaštej	cujašćo
3rd person			cujachu
Imperative	Singular	Dual	Plural
2nd person	cuj	cujtej	cujśo
Participles	Present	Past active (“ł-form”)	Past passive
	cujucy	cuł	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