dychaś

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms
  • dychasch (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dyxati. Compare dych (“breath”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian dychać, Polish od-dychać, Czech dýchat, Old Church Slavonic дꙑхати (dyxati), and Russian дышать (dyšatʹ).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈdɨxaɕ]

Verb

dychaś impf (perfective dychnuś)

  1. to breathe (draw air in and out)

Conjugation
Conjugation of dychaś (imperfective)
Present Singular Dual Plural
1st person dycham dychamej dychamy
2nd person dychaš dychatej dychaśo
3rd person dycha dychatej dychaju
Preterite Singular Dual Plural
1st person dychach dychachmej dychachmy
2nd person dychašo dychaštej dychašćo
3rd person dychašo dychaštej dychachu
Imperative Singular Dual Plural
2nd person dychaj dychajtej dychajśo
Participles
  • Present: dychajucy
  • Past active (“ł-form”): dychał
  • Past passive: dychany
Infinitive
dychaś
Supine
dychat
Verbal noun
dychanje

Derived terms
  • dodychaś pf (“breathe one’s last”)
  • dychadło n (“organ of breathing”)
  • dychaŕ m (“breather”)
  • dychaty (“short of breath”)
  • dychawa f (“windpipe”)
  • dychnjenje n (“a breath”)
  • dychotaś impf (“breathe heavily, pant”)
  • dychotaty (“short of breath”)
  • dychotawy (“short of breath”)
  • njedychaty (“short of breath, asthmatic”)
  • pódychaś pf (“breathe weakly”)
  • pózdychaś pf (“sigh”)
  • wobdychaś pf (“breathe on”)
  • wobzdychowaś pf (“sigh over, lament”)
  • wódychaś pf (“catch one’s breath”)
  • wótdychaś pf (“catch one’s breath”)
  • wudychaś pf (“breathe out, exhale”)
  • zadychaś pf (“breathe in”)
  • zdychaś pf (“sigh”)

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