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Bulgarian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Possibly a blend of Old Church Slavonic грътань (grŭtanĭ) + гъ́рло (gǎ́rlo), which would yield *гъртлан (compare dialectal Romanian gîrtlan), and then a dialectal change of -тл- > -кл-. Cognates include Macedonian грклан (grklan), Serbo-Croatian гр̀кљан, Lithuanian gurklỹs (“neck”) and Old Prussian gurcle (“throat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification(key): гръ‧клян
- Hyphenation(key): грък‧лян
Noun
гръкля́н • (grǎklján) m (relational adjective гръкля́нов or гръкля́нен)
- (anatomy, zootomy) larynx
- Synonym: ла́ринкс (lárinks)
Declension
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References
- “гръклян”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “гръклян”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “гръклан, гръклян”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 288