лепет
Bulgarian edit
Etymology edit
From an onomatopoeic root Proto-Slavic *lep- + -ет (-et). Parallel to Old Church Slavonic лопотивъ (lopotivŭ, “stuttering”) (with o-grade).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ле́пет • (lépet) m (dialectal)
Declension edit
Declension of ле́пет
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- ло́пам (lópam, “to bang, to clatter”) (dialectal)
- лаф (laf, “chit-chat”) (Turkish borrowing of Persian origin, cognate with the Slavic lemma)
References edit
- “лепет”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- Nayden Gerov (1899) “лепе́тенѥ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language][1] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 10
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лепет”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 364
Russian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ле́пет • (lépet) m inan (genitive ле́пета, nominative plural ле́петы, genitive plural ле́петов)
Declension edit
Declension of ле́пет (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a)
Related terms edit
- лепета́ть (lepetátʹ)