талига

Bulgarian

Etymology

Unclear. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian та̀љиге pl, Slovene tolíga, Czech taliha within Slavic and Hungarian taliga, Turkish talika in other languages.

• Native derivation presumes origin from obsolete Proto-Slavic *tel- / *tol- / *tal- (“to bear, to undergo”) +‎ -ига (-iga), from the same root as Bulgarian теле́ (telé, “calf”), Lithuanian tiltas (“bridge”). In that case, Hungarian, Romanian and Turkish cognates would be Slavic borrowings.
• Borrowed from Turkic (or possibly Mongolian), cognate with the Turkish term. Also attested as Old Church Slavonic телѣга (telěga), Russian теле́га (teléga), Romanian teleagă with root -е-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɐˈliɡɐ]
• IPA^(key): [ˈtaliɡɐ] (Western dialects)

Noun

тали́га or та́лига • (talíga or táliga) f

1. (obsolescent) cart, barrow

Declension

Declension of тали́га

	singular	plural
indefinite	тали́га talíga	тали́ги talígi
definite	тали́гата talígata	тали́гите talígite

Dialectal:

Declension of та́лига

	singular	plural
indefinite	та́лига táliga	та́лиги táligi
definite	та́лигата táligata	та́лигите táligite

Derived terms

• тали́жка (talížka) (diminutive)
• талига́р (taligár, “cart driver”)

References

• “талига”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “талига”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “талига”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 780