kśidło

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Lower Sorbian

kśidło

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Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kridlo; cognate with Upper Sorbian křidło, Polish skrzydło, Czech křídlo, Old Church Slavonic крило (krilo), and Russian крыло́ (kryló). The sense ‘grand piano’ is a semantic loan from German Flügel.

Pronunciation

Noun

kśidło n inan (diminutive kśidliško)

  1. wing (part of an animal; part of an airplane; fraction of a political movement)
  2. grand piano

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Further reading

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