bisaga
Polish
Alternative forms
- biesaga
Etymology
From Latin bisaccium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biˈsa.ɡa/
- Rhymes: -aɡa
- Syllabification: bi‧sa‧ga
Noun
bisaga m pers (Cieszyn Silesia)
- two bags bound together before the chest or behind the back
- layabout, lazybones, do-nothing
Descendants
- → Russian: бися́га (bisjága, “bag; saddle blanket”), пися́га (pisjága, “a blanket of deer pelt”) (dialectal)
- → Ukrainian: би́са́ги (býsáhy), бе́са́ги (bésáhy, “saddle-bags”)
Further reading
- Karłowicz, Jan (1900) Słownik gwar polskich, volume 1, Kraków, page 84
- biesaga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Slovene
Etymology
From Dalmatian bisuog, from Latin bisaccium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bisàːɡa/, /bisáːɡa/
Noun
bisāga f
- (archaic) sack
Inflection
| Feminine, a-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | bisága | ||
| gen. sing. | biságe | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | bisága | bisági | biságe |
| accusative | biságo | bisági | biságe |
| genitive | biságe | biság | biság |
| dative | bisági | biságama | biságam |
| locative | bisági | biságah | biságah |
| instrumental | biságo | biságama | biságami |
Further reading
- “bisaga”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran