kśebjat

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• kschébȧt (obsolete)
• kšebjat

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xrьbьtъ. Cognate with Lower Sorbian chribjet, Polish grzbiet, Czech hřbet, Slovak chrbát, Russian хребет (xrebet), and Serbo-Croatian hrbat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɕɛbʲat/, [ˈkɕebʲat]

Noun

kśebjat m ?

1. back (rear of the body; backrest of furniture)

Declension

Declension of kśebjat

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	kśebjat	kśebjata	kśebjaty
Genitive	kśebjata	kśebjatowu	kśebjatow
Dative	kśebjatoju	kśebjatoma	kśebjatam
Accusative	kśebjat	kśebjata	kśebjaty
Instrumental	kśebjatom	kśebjatoma	kśebjatami
Locative	kśebjaśe	kśebjatoma	kśebjatach

Derived terms

• kśebjataty
• nakśebjatnik

Further reading

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