почивам

From Proto-Slavic *počivati, an iterative of Old Church Slavonic почити (počiti) + -вам (-vam).

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почи́вам • (počívam) first-singular present indicative, impf (perfective почи́на)

1. (intransitive) not to work, to rest, to take a break
2. (figuratively, intransitive) to die, to pass away

   почи́вай в мир! ― počívaj v mir! ― rest in peace!

3. (reflexive with си) to relax, to have a rest, to take a rest

• изпочи́вам (izpočívam, “to rest, to restore one's strength”) (dialectal)
• отпочи́вам (otpočívam, “to take a break to rest”)
• почи́вка (počívka, “break, rest”)
• почива́лище (počiválište, “resort, place for resting”)
• почи́вен (počíven, “resting”)
• почи́вш (počívš), почи́вши (počívši, “rested”) (dated, obsolete)

• поко́й (pokój, “rest, repose”)
• споко́ен (spokóen, “calm, restful”)
  • споко́йствие (spokójstvie, “calmness, composure, tranquility”)

• “почивам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “почивам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “почивам, почина”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 567