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Bulgarian
Etymology
Spread into the standard language from Old Church Slavonic свѧтꙑн҄и (svętynʹi, “holiness”), from Proto-Slavic *svętyni. Morphologically equivalent to свят (svjat, “holy”) + -иня (-inja).
Pronunciation
Noun
свети́ня • (svetínja) f
- sacred object, relict
- (obsolete) sanctuary
Declension
References
- “светиня”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “светиня”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010