wokoło

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms
  • hokoło (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *okolo; cognate with Upper Sorbian wokoło, Polish około, Czech okolo. Equivalent to wo koło (“around a circle”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɔkɔwɔ/, [ˈɔkowɔ]

Preposition

wokoło (with genitive)

  1. around, about
    wokoło Starych wikow ― around the Old Market

Adverb

wokoło

  1. around

Further reading
  • hokoło in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
  • wokoło in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
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