kśemjeń

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Lower Sorbian

kśemjeń

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kremy; cognate with Upper Sorbian křemjeń, Polish krzemień, Czech křemen (quartz), Russian креме́нь (kreménʹ), Serbo-Croatian krȅmēn.

Pronunciation

Noun

kśemjeń m inan (diminutive kśemušk)

  1. flint (hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck)

Declension

Further reading

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