rudawy
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
ruda (“bog iron”) + -awy, from Proto-Slavic *rudъ (“red”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrudawɨ/
Adjective
rudawy
- containing bog iron ore
- dirty red (from or as if from bog iron ore)
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | virile | nonvirile | virile | nonvirile | ||||
| animate | inanimate | |||||||||
| nominative vocative |
rudawy | rudawe | rudawa | rudawej | rudawe | |||||
| genitive | rudawego rudaweg¹ |
rudaweje rudawej¹ |
rudaweju | rudawych | ||||||
| dative | rudawemu rudawem¹ |
rudawej | rudawyma | rudawym | ||||||
| accusative | rudawego rudaweg¹ |
rudawy | rudawe | rudawu | rudaweju | rudawej | rudawe, rudawych | rudawe | ||
| instrumental | rudawym | rudaweju rudawej¹ |
rudawyma | rudawymi | ||||||
| locative | rudawem rudawym² |
rudawej | rudawyma | rudawych | ||||||
¹ poetic, colloquial
² obsolete, dialectal
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “rudawy”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “rudawy”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag