нанкам

Bulgarian

Etymology

Semelfactive or iterative factitive from the interjection нани-на (nani-na) for pacifying babies. By surface analysis, (formal) на́нам (nánam) +‎ -кам (-kam).

Verb

на́нкам • (nánkam) first-singular present indicativeimpf

  1. (intransitive) to take a nap, to doze, to sleep for a while

Conjugation

References

  • нанкам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • нанкам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010