глезя

No exact cognates in other Slavic languages, however, formally resembles Lithuanian glèžti (“to caress”) and Lithuanian gleižioti (“to smear, to anoint”), gleižùs (“slimy, greasy”). A connection with Old Norse kløkkr (“soft, pliable, yielding”), Lithuanian glẽžnas (“tender, soft, limp”) and Hittite 𒂵𒆷𒀝𒋻 (“(opium) poppy, balm?”) has been proposed by Oettinger, from *gleǵ- “weak, soft”.^[1] Kloekhorst nevertheless argues that “Although ON kløkkr indeed seems to point to a root *gleǵ-”, Lith. glẽžnas can only reflect *gleǵʰ- because of the absence of Winter’s Law (we would have expect *gleǵ- to have yielded Lith. **glẽž-). If both forms are indeed cognate, we have to assume that the geminate -kk- in ON is due to Kluge’s Law (any stop followed by an *n (*-Tn-) yields a voiceless geminate (-tt-))”.

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гле́зя • (glézja) first-singular present indicative, impf

1. (transitive) to fondle, to coddle, to pamper, to cosset (to treat with excessive care)
2. (transitive, figurative) to spoil, to indulge
3. (reflexive) to satiate, to pamper one's own needs; to act without constraints

• наглезя pf (naglezja), наглезвам impf (naglezvam)
• поглезя pf (poglezja), поглезвам impf (poglezvam)
• разглезя pf (razglezja), разглезвам impf (razglezvam)
• глезо́тя (glezótja, “to pamper”)
• гле́зльо m (glézljo), гле́зла f (glézla, “mollycoddle”)

• “глезя”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “глезя”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “глезя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 248
• Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) “kalank-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 428
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “gleǵ-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 401