витег

Bulgarian

Etymology

From the Germanic borrowing Proto-Slavic *vitędzь with reverted second palatalization. Doublet of ви́кинг (víking) and viking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvitɛk]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ви́тег • (víteg) m

1. (poetic) hero, knight (legendary figure)

   Synonyms: геро́й (gerój), големе́ц (goleméc), юна́к (junák)

Declension

Declension of ви́тег

	singular	plural
indefinite	ви́тег víteg	ви́тези vítezi
definite (subject form)	ви́тегът vítegǎt	ви́тезите vítezite
definite (object form)	ви́тега vítega
vocative form	ви́теже víteže	ви́тези vítezi

Alternative forms

• ви́тез (vítez)
• ви́тяз (vítjaz) — Russian borrowing
• ви́тяк (vítjak) — reanalyzed with the agentative suffix -ак (-ak)
• ви́тец (vítec) — reanalyzed with the agentative suffix -ец (-ec)

See also

• варя́г (varjág, “Varangian”)

References

• “витег”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “витег, витек, витец”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 154