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Bulgarian
Etymology
Inherited from Old Church Slavonic вощага (voštaga), of unclear origin. BER mentions (under its derivative въстегарка (vǎstegarka)):
- Possibly borrowed from some derivative of Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō, “to bear, to lift”);
- Corrupted form of what would be въз- (vǎz-) + те́жа (téža, “to weigh”) + -а (-a) (one would expect a nasal vowel and no palatalization within the root in this case).
Compare also Lithuanian vazgóti (“to stretch”).
Noun
вощага • (voštaga) f (archaic)
- stick, crook, whip (type of tool)
Usage notes
Only derivatives are still used in the contemporary language.
Derived terms
References
Old Church Slavonic
Etymology
Unknown
Noun
вощага • (voštaga) f
- whip (type of tool), lash
Declension
Declension of вощага (hard a-stem)
References
- “вощага”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2024
- Janyšková, Ilona, editor (2016), “voštaga”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka staroslověnského [Etymological Dictionary of the Old Church Slavonic Language] (in Czech), numbers 18 (větъ – zakonъ), Brno: Tribun EU, →ISBN, page 1078