леджа

Bulgarian

Etymology

Fossilized plurale tantum of Proto-Slavic *lędvьje (attested as Old Church Slavonic лѧдвиѩ pl (lędviję, “loins”)), probably spread from western dialects. Compare Serbo-Croatian ле́ђа pl (“back”). Semantic shift analogous to Bulgarian коля́но (koljáno, “generation, lineage”) (literally: knee).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛdʒɐ]

Noun

ле́джа • (lédža) f

1. (dialectal, obsolescent, figurative) lineage, descendants, offsprings

   Synonyms: поколе́ние (pokolénie), пото́мство (potómstvo), (pejorative) па́сма (pásma)

Declension

Declension of ле́джа

	singular	plural
indefinite	ле́джа lédža	ле́джи lédži
definite	ле́джата lédžata	ле́джите lédžite

References

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “леджа”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 345

Further reading

• лѧдвиѩ in Исторически речник на Българския език, Sofia University