котига
Bulgarian edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with Romanian cotigă. If Slavic in origin, perhaps equivalent to dialectal кота́я (kotája), ко́ткам (kótkam, “to shove around, to reel”) + -ига (-iga).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ко́тига • (kótiga) f (dialectal)
Declension edit
Declension of ко́тига
Alternative forms edit
Related terms edit
- ко́тва (kótva, “anchor”) (possibly)
References edit
- “котика”, in BGJargon.com (in Bulgarian), 2007
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “котига”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 675