котва
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Bulgarian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *koty (v-stem). Synchronically, either from кот (kot, “tomcat”) + -ва (-va) (due to the similarity between anchors and cat's claws) or from obsolete кота́я (kotája, “to hoop, to distort”) + -ва (-va) (in reference to the U-shape of most anchors).
Pronunciation
Noun
ко́тва • (kótva) f
- anchor (tool to hook a vessel into sea bottom)
Declension
Declension of ко́тва
References
- “котва”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “котва”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
Anagrams
Macedonian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *koty.
Pronunciation
Noun
котва • (kotva) f
Declension
Declension of котва
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *koty.
Pronunciation
Noun
ко̏тва f (Latin spelling kȍtva)