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Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *-ivъšь, past active participle ending of i-conj. verbs.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ивш • (-ivš)
- (dated, obsolete) Deverbal from i-conj. verbs expressing a resultant or a quality induced by a past activity:
- пече́ля (pečélja, “to earn; to win”) → печели́вш (pečelívš, “winning”)
- честя́ (čestjá, “to get frequent”) → чести́вш (čestívš)/части́вш (častívš, “frequently occurring”) (dialectal)
- градя́ (gradjá, “to build, construct”) → гради́вш (gradívš, “structural”) (dated)
- плодя́ (plodjá, “to begot, to spawn”) → плоди́вш (plodívš, “fertile”) (dated)
Usage notes
In Modern Bulgarian, the derivatives constructed with this suffix are interpreted as normal adjectives. The past active participle construction has been lost.
Derived terms
References
- St. Stoyanov (1983) “Прилагателни имена от причастия”, in Граматика на съвременния български книжовен език, volume 2, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 150