pjero
Lower Sorbian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pero, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). The sense ‘spring’ is a semantic loan from German Feder.
Pronunciation
Noun
pjero n ? (diminutive pjerko)
- feather (branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds)
- nib (tip of a pen)
- spring (device made of flexible material)
Declension
Declension of pjero
Derived terms
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “ṕero”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “pjero”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Categories:
- Lower Sorbian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Lower Sorbian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Lower Sorbian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Lower Sorbian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Lower Sorbian semantic loans from German
- Lower Sorbian terms derived from German
- Lower Sorbian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Lower Sorbian lemmas
- Lower Sorbian nouns
- Lower Sorbian neuter nouns
- dsb:Anatomy
- dsb:Birds
- dsb:Mechanisms
- dsb:Writing