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Bulgarian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Church Slavonic лѣто (lěto, “summer; year; time”), from Proto-Slavic *lěto, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁tom.
Pronunciation
Noun
ля́то • (ljáto) n (relational adjective ле́тен)
- summer
- ци́ганско ля́то ― cígansko ljáto ― Indian summer
- (poetic) year
- в лято Господне X ― v ljato Gospodne X ― in the year X in the name of God
Declension
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- лето- (leto-) (in compounds)
References
- “лято”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “лято”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Nayden Gerov (1899) “лѣ́то”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 33
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лято”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, pages 590-592
- “лѣто”, in Старобългарски речник [Old Bulgarian Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2024
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