sȗxъ

sȗxъ Grammatical information: adj. o Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `dry'

Old Church Slavic:

suxъ `dry' [adj o]

Russian:

suxój `dry' [adj o]

Czech:

suchý `dry' [adj o]

Slovak:

suchý `dry' [adj o]

Polish:

suchy `dry' [adj o]

Serbo-Croatian:

sȗh `dry' [adj o];

Čak. sȗh (Vrgada, Hvar) `dry' [adj o], sūhȁ [Nomsf], sȗho [Nomsn];

Čak. sȗh (Orbanići) `dry' [adj o], sūhȁ [Nomsf], sũha [Nomsf], sȗho [Nomsn]

Slovene:

sȗh `dry' [adj o], súha [Gens]

Bulgarian:

sux `dry' [adj o]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: souṣos

Lithuanian:

saũsas `dry' [adj o]

Latvian:

sàuss `dry' [adj o]

Old Prussian:

sausā [sausan] `dry' [Accsf]

Indo-European reconstruction: h₂sous-o-

Comments: Probably based on the perfect participle of the root *h₂s (Lubotsky 1985).

Other cognates:

Skt. śúṣka- (RV+) `dry, barren' [adj];

Gk. (Hom.) αὖος `dry' [adj];

Lat. sūdus `dry, merry' [adj];

OE sēar `dry' [adj]

Notes:

Probably the perfect participle of the root *h₂s (Schrijver 1991: 54).