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Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *xvorstьje (“bushes”), originally meaning cluster of bushes. Morphologically, equivalent to храст (hrast, “thorn”) + -е (-e). Cognate with Russian хворо́стье pl (xvoróstʹje) (dialectal) and (except for the grammatical classification) formally equivalent to Old Church Slavonic хврастиѥ n (xvrastije) (Serbian rendition), Slovene hrástje n, Czech chrastí n, Slovak chrastie n.
Pronunciation
Noun
хра́сте • (hráste) pl
- (plural only, collective) bushes, shrubs
Declension
Declension of хра́сте
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хра́сте
hráste
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хра́стете
hrástete
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- храст (hrast, “bush”)
- храстала́к (hrastalák, “place overgrown with bushes”)
References
- “храст”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvorstьje”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 131