Bulgarian edit

Etymology edit

Probably expressive or onomatopoeic in origin, similar to Bulgarian тепам (tepam, to bash), гепя (gepja, to steal). Possibly related to dialectal Serbo-Croatian дѐпати (to beat), dialectal Russian дёп (djop, inferior, last one),[1] Polish deptać (to trample), and further akin to Latvian dępât (to strike down).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈdɛpvɐm]
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Verb edit

де́пвам (dépvam) first-singular present indicativeimpf (dialectal)

  1. (transitive) to strike as hard as possible
  2. (transitive, figurative) to snatch, to steal
  3. (reflexive with се) to get away

Conjugation edit

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References edit

  1. ^ Anikin, A. E. (2019) “дёб, дёп”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 13 (два – дигло), Moscow: Russian Language Institute, →ISBN, page 70