кацам

Unclear:

• Possibly related to Bulgarian ка́ча (káča, “to climb”), Lithuanian kakėti (“to descend”), Latvian kakt (“to culminate”). Georgiev tentatively considers further association with Albanian këcej (“to hop over”).
• Filipova-Bayrova supposes Greek origin, from the aorist stem έκατσα (ékatsa) of Ancient Greek κᾰ́θημαι (káthēmai, “to settle”).

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ка́цам • (kácam) first-singular present indicative, impf (perfective ка́цна)

1. (intransitive) to alight, to perch
2. (intransitive) to land (of aircraft or airborne objects)

   Самоле́тът ка́ца ско́ро.

   Samolétǎt káca skóro.

   Тhe aeroplane lands soon.

• къ́цам (kǎ́cam) — dialectal

• ка́цвам (kácvam) (semelfactive)
• нака́цам pf (nakácam), нака́цвам impf (nakácvam)
• ска́цам pf (skácam), ска́цвам impf (skácvam) (dialectal)

• кача́ (kačá), ка́чвам (káčvam, “to climb, to hang up”)
• скок (skok, “leap, jump”)
  • ска́чам (skáčam, “to jump”)

• “кацам”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “кацам”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “кацам, кацвам, кацна”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 286

• мацка (macka), цакам (cakam)