pjerina

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

  • ṕerina (obsolete)

Etymology

pjero (feather) + -ina; cognate with Old Church Slavonic перина (perina, pillow), Upper Sorbian pjerina, Polish pierzyna, Czech peřina (feather bed).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʲɛrʲina/, [ˈpʲerʲina]

Noun

pjerina f animal

  1. fowl, poultry

Declension

Further reading

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