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From Latin ulex, itself from a local substrate language. Compare Portuguese urze, Spanish urce.
uz f (plural uces)
- (botany) heather (especially any of several shrub species in the genus Erica)
1458, José-Luis Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 413:
et abedes de leuantar enno dicto lugar huna casa enno dicto lugar, de pedra, cuberta de huzes et de culmo
- You should build there a house at that place, made of stone, covered with heather and thatch
- 1986, Constantino García, Grilos e ralos, rans albariñas in Actas do Congresso internacional de estudos sobre Rosalia de Castro e o seu tempo, volume 3, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 78:
Dado que existe toxo albar e que albar e mesmo albariña significa nalgunhas zonas de Galicia uz, carpaza, breixo, penso que cabería tamén a posibilidade de interpreta-las rans albariñas como rans dos breixos.
- Considering that there is toxo albar and that albar and even albariña mean, in some regions of Galicia, heather, rockrose, heaths, I think we could also interpret rans albariñas as rockrose frogs.
- Spanish heath (Erica australis)
- Synonym: uz moura
- tree heath (Erica arborea)
- Synonym: uz branca
- Erica scoparia
- heather (Calluna vulgaris)
- Synonym: queiroa
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “huzes”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “uzal”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “uz”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “uz”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “uz”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *uź.
uz (with accusative or genitive)
From Proto-Germanic *ūt, whence also Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old Dutch, Old English ūt, Old Norse út, Gothic 𐌿𐍄 (ūt).
ūz
ūz
- out of
uz n (plural uzuri)
Declension of uz
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъz (Russian воз- (voz-), Polish wz-). Cognate with Lithuanian už.
uz (Cyrillic spelling уз) (+ accusative case)
- up, upward
- ići uz stepenice ― to go upstairs
- uz brdo ― uphill
- uz r(ij)eku ― upriver
- peti/penjati se uz konopac ― to climb a rope
- next to, beside, alongside, by
- uz cestu ― next to the road
- uza samu granicu ― on the very border
- with, while, along with (circumstances or conditions accompanying the action)
- uz sm(ij)eh/plač ― with laughter/crying
- uz p(j)esmu ― while singing
- uz piće ― with a drink; while having a drink
- p(j)evati uz klavir ― to sing while the piano is playing
- in spite of, despite (= pȍred)
- uza sve to ― despite all that
The variant form uza is used before enclitics and consonants that would make it difficult to pronounce.
- “uz” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوز, from Common Turkic *ūz, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ūŕ (“master, craftsman”), akin to oğan.
uz
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوز, from Proto-Turkic *uŕa-. Akin to uzak.
uz
- Only found in the fossilized idiom az gitmek, uz gitmek. Revitalized as a preffix during the Language Reform.
- “uz”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “uz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
uz
- Alternative form of ouse
1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, line 10:
Thaar's no own aal to taak uz thaar.
- There's no one at all to take us there,
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 131