buwoł

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Lower Sorbian[edit]

buwoł

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Upper Sorbian buwoł, from Proto-Slavic *byvolъ (buffalo), from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, antelope, wild ox). Cognate with Polish bawół, Czech buvol, Serbo-Croatian bȉvol, Russian бу́йвол (bújvol).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈbuwɔw/, [ˈbuwow]

Noun[edit]

buwoł m animal

  1. buffalo (Old World mammals)

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “buwoł”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “buwoł”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
  • Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.