uz
See also: Appendix:Variations of "uz"
Translingual
    
    
Galician
    
FWOTD – 27 March 2013
    
Etymology
    
From Latin ulex, itself from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia . Compare Portuguese urze, Spanish urce.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈuθ/
- (seseo merger) IPA(key): /ˈus/
Noun
    
uz f (plural uces)
- (botany) heather (especially any of several shrub species in the genus Erica)
-  1458, José-Luis Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 413:- et abedes de leuantar enno dicto lugar huna casa enno dicto lugar, de pedra, cuberta de huzes et de culmo- You should build there a house at that place, made of stone, covered with heather and thatch
 
 
- 1986, Constantino García, Grilos e ralos, rans albariñas in Actas do Congresso internacional de estudos sobre Rosalia de Castro e o seu tempo, volume 3, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 78:
- Dado que existe toxo albar e que albar e mesmo albariña significa nalgunhas zonas de Galicia uz, carpaza, breixo, penso que cabería tamén a posibilidade de interpreta-las rans albariñas como rans dos breixos.
- Considering that there is toxo albar and that albar and even albariña mean, in some regions of Galicia, heather, rockrose, heaths, I think we could also interpret rans albariñas as rockrose frogs.
 
 
- Dado que existe toxo albar e que albar e mesmo albariña significa nalgunhas zonas de Galicia uz, carpaza, breixo, penso que cabería tamén a posibilidade de interpreta-las rans albariñas como rans dos breixos.
 - Spanish heath (Erica australis)
- Synonym: uz moura
 
- tree heath (Erica arborea)
- Synonym: uz branca
 
- Erica scoparia
- heather (Calluna vulgaris)
- Synonym: queiroa
 
 
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References
    
- “huzes” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “uzal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “uz” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “uz” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “uz” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Latvian
    
    Etymology
    
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *uź.
Old High German
    
    Etymology
    
From Proto-Germanic *ūt, whence also Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old Dutch, Old English ūt, Old Norse út, Gothic 𐌿𐍄 (ūt).
Romanian
    
    
Declension
    
Related terms
    
Serbo-Croatian
    
    Alternative forms
    
Etymology
    
From Proto-Slavic *vъz (Russian воз- (voz-), Polish wz-). Cognate with Lithuanian už.
Pronunciation
    
- (unaccented) IPA(key): /uz/
Preposition
    
uz (Cyrillic spelling уз) (+ accusative case)
- up, upward
- ići uz stepenice ― to go upstairs
- uz brdo ― uphill
- uz r(ij)eku ― upriver
- peti/penjati se uz konopac ― to climb a rope
 
- next to, beside, alongside, by
- uz cestu ― next to the road
- uza samu granicu ― on the very border
 
- with, while, along with (circumstances or conditions accompanying the action)
- uz sm(ij)eh/plač ― with laughter/crying
- uz p(j)esmu ― while singing
- uz piće ― with a drink; while having a drink
- p(j)evati uz klavir ― to sing while the piano is playing
 
- in spite of, despite (= pȍred)
- uza sve to ― despite all that
 
Usage notes
    
The variant form uza is used before enclitics and consonants that would make it difficult to pronounce.
Related terms
    
References
    
- “uz” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Yola
    
    Pronoun
    
uz
- Alternative form of ouse
-  1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 10:- Thaar's no own aal to taak uz thaar.- There's no one at all to take us there,
 
 
 
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References
    
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 131
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