глашатай

By surface analysis, глася́ (glasjá, “to voice”) +‎ -тай (-taj).

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глашата́й • (glašatáj) m (feminine глашата́йка) (historical)

1. spokesman, town crier, mouthpiece (person who used to make proclamations to the common folk, before the development of mass media)

• “глашатай”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “глашатай”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

From Old Church Slavonic глашатаи (glašatai, “herald”), itself from Proto-Slavic *golšatajь (“herald”), a compound of *golšati (“to speak”) and *-ajь (“deverbal suffix”).

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глаша́тай • (glašátaj) m inan (genitive глаша́тая, nominative plural глаша́таи, genitive plural глаша́таев, feminine глашатайка)

1. herald, spokesman, town crier, mouthpiece (person who used to make proclamations to the common folk, before the development of mass media)