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Bulgarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian свиде́тель (svidételʹ), formally an agent noun of the obsolete сведя (svedja, “to witness, to know”) + -тел (-tel) (in Russian, OCS -ѣ- sometimes transforms into -и-). Replaced the native Bulgarian сведок (svedok).
Noun
свиде́тел • (svidétel) m
- witness
Declension
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References
- “свидетел”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “свидетел”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 546