лепет

From an onomatopoeic root Proto-Slavic *lep- + -ет (-et). Parallel to Old Church Slavonic лопотивъ (lopotivŭ, “stuttering”) (with o-grade). A similar formation is found in Sanskrit लप् (lap, “to chatter”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛpɛt]

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ле́пет • (lépet) m (dialectal)

1. babbling, chatter (unintelligible speech)

• лепе́тя (lepétja, “to babble”), лепе́тене (lepétene, “babbling”)

• ло́пам (lópam, “to bang, to clatter”) (dialectal)
• лаф (laf, “chit-chat”) (Turkish borrowing of Persian origin, cognate with the Slavic lemma)

• “лепет”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Nayden Gerov (1899) “лепе́тенѥ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 10
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лепет”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 364

• IPA^(key): [ˈlʲepʲɪt]

ле́пет • (lépet) m inan (genitive ле́пета, nominative plural ле́петы, genitive plural ле́петов)

1. babble, prattle (inarticulate or senseless talk)

• лепета́ть (lepetátʹ)