храсте
Bulgarian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *xvorstьje (“bushes”), originally meaning cluster of bushes. Morphologically, equivalent to храст (hrast, “thorn”) + -е (-e). Cognate with Russian хворо́стье pl (xvoróstʹje) (dialectal) and (except for the grammatical classification) formally equivalent to Old Church Slavonic хврастиѥ n (xvrastije) (Serbian rendition), Slovene hrástje n, Czech chrastí n, Slovak chrastie n.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
хра́сте • (hráste) pl
- (plural only, collective) bushes, shrubs
Declension edit
Declension of хра́сте
| plural | |
|---|---|
| indefinite | хра́сте hráste |
| definite | хра́стете hrástete |
Related terms edit
- храст (hrast, “bush”)
- храстала́к (hrastalák, “place overgrown with bushes”)
References edit
- “храст”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvorstьje”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 131