братовчед
Bulgarian
Alternative forms
- братуче́д (bratučéd) — dialectal
Etymology
Inherited from Old Church Slavonic братоучѧдъ (bratučędŭ). By surface analysis, бра́тов (brátov, “brother's, brotherly”) + че́д(о) (čéd(o), “child”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [brɐtofˈt͡ʃɛt]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
- Syllabification(key): бра‧то‧вчед
- Hyphenation(key): бра‧тов‧чед
Noun
братовче́д • (bratovčéd) m (feminine братовче́дка)
- male cousin
- Братовчеда ми ходи да учи в Холандия.
- Bratovčeda mi hodi da uči v Holandija.
- My cousin's going to study in Holland.
Usage notes
Cousins of differing levels of shared ancestry are expressed using the same numeric idiom as in English, e.g. one's first cousin is translated into Bulgarian using пъ́рви братовче́д (pǎ́rvi bratovčéd). Meanwhile, cousins "removed" are expressed using the word отстране́н (otstranén), alongside a word or phrase for how many times removed, e.g. братовче́д веднъ́ш отстране́н (bratovčéd vednǎ́š otstranén, “cousin once removed”), братовче́д два пъ́ти отстране́н (bratovčéd dva pǎ́ti otstranén, “cousin twice removed”), etc.
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | братовче́д bratovčéd |
братовче́ди bratovčédi |
| definite (subject form) |
братовче́дът bratovčédǎt |
братовче́дите bratovčédite |
| definite (object form) |
братовче́да bratovčéda | |
| count form | — | братовче́да bratovčéda |
References
- “братовчед”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “братовчед”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “братовчед”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 75