Zur Etymologie zweier balkanischer Entlehnungen in der bulgarischen Sprache: текя̀свам, терк
On the Etymology of two Balkan Lexical Borrowings in Bulgarian: текя̀свам, терк

Summary/Abstract: The present paper takes into consideration, critically, the previous etymological explanations of the Bulgarian words текя̀свам ‘to get bored’, as a dialectal term, and терк ‘model, standard ; (fig.) ‘a bizarre, extravagant person’, as used in colloquial speech. New etymological explanations are propounded for the two words: the etymology of текя̀свам should not be considered as separate from the one of окекя̀свам ‘to get bored’, already discussed in Dictionnaire étymologique bulgare; as for терк, it preserves a Turkish archaic term, *terk, as variant of terh ‘plan, project’ (from Persian ṭärḥ ‘plan, project, sketch’). The author takes into account phonetic, morphological and semantic features of the analyzed words.

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