dźěćo

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dě̄tę̀ / *dě̑tę. Cognate with Lower Sorbian źiśe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪj.t͡ʃɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɪjt͡ʃɔ
• Syllabification: dźě‧ćo

dźěćo n

1. child (young human being, who is still in the childhood phase)
   • 1896, Nowy Zakoń: Do hornjoserbsćiny po rjedźe Vulgaty prelozistaj Jurij Luscanski a Michal Hórnik‎^[1], Z nakladom towaŕstwa ss. Cyrilla a Methocija, page 274:

     Hdyž běch dźěćo, rěčach jako dźěćo, rozymjach jako dźěćo, myslach jako dźěćo. Hdyž pak buch muž, wotpołožich štož bě dźěsćowske.

     When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I shed what was childlike.

• “dźěćo”, in Mudra corpus [Upper Sorbian–Czech dictionary] (in Czech), 2024–2026
• “dźěćo” in Soblex