dojś

See also: DOJs

Lower Sorbian

Etymology 1

dojś

From Proto-Slavic *dojiti, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian dejić, Polish doić, Czech dojit, Russian дои́ть (doítʹ), and Old Church Slavonic доити (doiti).

Verb

dojś impf (perfective pódojś)

1. to milk (express milk from [a mammal])

Conjugation

Conjugation of dojś (perfective)

	singular			dual			plural
	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present	dojm	dojš	doj	dojmej	dojtej	dojtej	dojmy	dojśo	doje
preterite	dojach	dojašo	dojašo	dojachmej	dojaštej	dojaštej	dojachmy	dojašćo	dojachu
imperative		doj			dojtej			dojśo
infinitive		dojś
verbal noun		dojenje, dojśe
supine		dojt
participle	present	dojecy
	past active (“ł-form”)	dojł
	past passive	dojty

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *dojьti (compare Russian дойти (dojti)), from *do + *jьti. By surface analysis, do- +‎ hyś.

Verb

dojś pf (imperfective dochadaś)

1. to go to, to visit
2. to come to, to arrive at, to reach

Conjugation

Conjugation of dojś (perfective)

Present	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	dojdu, dojźom	dojźomej	dojźomy
2nd person	dojźoš	dojźotej	dojźośo
3rd person	dojźo	dojźotej	dojdu
Preterite	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	dojźech	dojźechmej	dojźechmy
2nd person	dojźe	dojźeštej	dojźešćo
3rd person	dojźe	dojźeštej	dojźechu
Imperative	Singular	Dual	Plural
2nd person	dojź	dojźtej	dojźćo

Participles

• Present: —
• Past active (“ł-form”): dojšeł
• Past passive: dojźony

Infinitive

dojś

Supine

dojt

Verbal noun

dojźenje

Further reading

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