False Friends in Slavic Languages

All Lower Sorbian terms
Lower Sorbian bibliography

The database knows following meanings of the Lower Sorbian word ‘módry’:

is a complete false friend in Bulgarian and Macedonian.
is a true friend in Upper Sorbian.
does not have all its Lower Sorbian meanings in Croatian, Kashubian, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian and Serbian.
has additional meanings in Kashubian, Polish and Slovenian.
does not have any formally similar counterparts in Belarusian, Russian or Ukrainian.

The Lower Sorbian meaning ‘blue’ is shared by Polish modry and Upper Sorbian módry.
The Lower Sorbian meaning ‘dark blue as colour of face or body’ is shared by Croatian modar, Serbian модар, Slovenian moder and Upper Sorbian módry.
The Lower Sorbian meaning ‘light blue’ is shared by Croatian modar, Kashubian mòdri, Polish modry, Slovak modrý, Slovenian moder and Upper Sorbian módry.
The meaning ‘blue like cornflower’ (not present in Lower Sorbian ‘módry’) is attested in Kashubian mòdri, Polish modry and Slovenian moder.
The meaning ‘wise’ (not present in Lower Sorbian ‘módry’) is attested in Bulgarian мъдър, Macedonian мудар and Slovenian moder.
The meaning ‘clever, smart’ (not present in Lower Sorbian ‘módry’) is attested in Polish mądry.

NB: No information yet for Bosnian and Czech.

Lower Sorbian módry	Meaning: blue dark blue as colour of face or body light blue	Map Bibliography List Wikibook
Belarusian ∅ - no corresponding term.

Lower Sorbian módry	Meaning: blue dark blue as colour of face or body light blue	Map Bibliography List Wikibook
Bulgarian мъдър	Meaning: wise

Lower Sorbian módry	Meaning in Croatian: blue modar / dark blue as colour of face or body light blue	Map Bibliography List Wikibook
Croatian modar	Meaning: dark blue as colour of face or body light blue

Lower Sorbian módry	Meaning: blue dark blue as colour of face or body light blue	Map Bibliography List Wikibook
Kashubian mòdri	Meaning: light blue blue like cornflower

Lower Sorbian módry	Meaning: blue dark blue as colour of face or body light blue	Map Bibliography List Wikibook
Macedonian мудар	Meaning: wise

Lower Sorbian módry	Meaning in Polish: niebieski, modry / blue dark blue as colour of face or body light blue	Map Bibliography List Wikibook
Polish I. mądry	Meaning: clever, smart
II. modry	Meaning: blue light blue blue like cornflower

Lower Sorbian módry	Meaning: blue dark blue as colour of face or body light blue	Map Bibliography List Wikibook
Russian ∅ - no corresponding term.

Lower Sorbian módry	Meaning in Serbian: blue модар / dark blue as colour of face or body светлоплав / light blue	Map Bibliography List Wikibook
Serbian модар	Meaning: dark blue as colour of face or body

Lower Sorbian módry	Meaning: blue dark blue as colour of face or body light blue	Map Bibliography List Wikibook
Slovak modrý	Meaning: light blue

Lower Sorbian módry	Meaning: blue dark blue as colour of face or body light blue	Map Bibliography List Wikibook
Slovenian moder	Meaning: dark blue as colour of face or body light blue blue like cornflower wise

Lower Sorbian módry	Meaning in Upper Sorbian: módry / blue dark blue as colour of face or body light blue	Map Bibliography List Wikibook
Upper Sorbian módry	Meaning: blue dark blue as colour of face or body light blue

Lower Sorbian módry	Meaning: blue dark blue as colour of face or body light blue	Map Bibliography List Wikibook
Ukrainian ∅ - no corresponding term.

*modrъ

Meanings:

‘blue’

‘dark blue as colour of face or body’

‘light blue’

‘blue like cornflower’

‘wise’

‘clever, smart’

no such word

no information yet

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*modrъ	Meanings
*modrъ	blue	dark blue as colour of face or body	light blue	blue like cornflower	wise	clever, smart
Russian ∅
Ukrainian ∅
Belarusian ∅
Polish mądry						+
Polish modry	+		+	+
Kashubian mòdri			+	+
Lower Sorbian módry	+	+	+
Upper Sorbian módry	+	+	+
Slovak modrý			+
Slovenian moder		+	+	+	+
Croatian modar		+	+
Serbian модар		+
Macedonian мудар					+
Bulgarian мъдър					+
Meanings	blue	dark blue as colour of face or body	light blue	blue like cornflower	wise	clever, smart