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Bulgarian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vьrtъpъ. Attested with the meaning “cave, garden” in Old Church Slavonic врьтъпъ (vrĭtŭpŭ), whence Romanian Vârtop (toponym).
By surface analysis, въ́ртя (vǎ́rtja, “to turn, to whirl”) + -оп (-op).
Pronunciation
Noun
върто́п • (vǎrtóp) m
- whirlpool
- Synonym: водовърте́ж (vodovǎrtéž)
- (dialectal) narrow infundibular formation, depression (landscape formation)
Declension
Derived terms
- въртопе́л (vǎrtopél, “infundibular formation”) (dialectal)
- върте́ж (vǎrtéž, “rotation, arcing”)
- врът (vrǎt, “vegetable garden”) (dialectal)
References
- “въртоп”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “въртоп”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “въртоп”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 212
- “врьтъпъ”, in Старобългарски речник [Old Bulgarian Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2024