довлея

From Proto-Slavic *dovьlěti (“to suffice”). Secondary meaning “to burden, to weigh on” has developed colloquially at a later time.

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довле́я • (dovléja) first-singular present indicative, impf

1. (intransitive, poetic, archaic) to suffice, to be enough
2. (intransitive, dialectal, figurative) to burden, to gnaw, to haunt, to weigh on (one's conscience)

   Synonyms: те́жа (téža), те́гна (tégna), гло́ждя (glóždja)

   Грях ми довле́е. ― Grjah mi dovlée. ― A sin is haunting me/weighs on my .

• удовлетворя́ pf (udovletvorjá), удовлетворя́вам impf (udovletvorjávam, “to satisfy”)

• ве́ля (vélja), ве́лям (véljam, “to proclaim, to ordine”) (dialectal)
• во́ля (vólja, “will”)
  • доволя́ pf (dovoljá) (dialectal), задоволя́вам impf (zadovoljávam, “to content, to satisfy”)
    • дово́лство (dovólstvo, “contentment”)
    • дово́лен (dovólen, “pleased, satisfied”)

• “довлея”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• довьлѣти in Исторически речник на Българския език, Sofia University "St. Clement Ohridsky"

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довле́я • (dovléja)

1. present adverbial imperfective participle of довле́ть (dovlétʹ)