отава – Bulgarian noun declension

Noun: отава

Gender:

Indefinite

Definite

Nouns inflected like отава

отава,

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Etymology

1. From Proto-Slavic *otava, however, the exact origin is uncertain.
2. According to BER (following Vasmer, Trubachev), possibly a derivative of Bulgarian *товя (*tovja, “to add mass, to feed in order to make fat”) (causative of Old Church Slavonic тꙑти (tyti, “to fatten, to be fat”); cognate with Serbo-Croatian то̀вити (“to feed, to fatten”)).
3. According to Stefan Mladenov, possibly derived or influenced by Oghur *ot (“grass”), which however is dismissed by Vasmer and Georgiev.
4. Possibly akin to Lithuanian atólas (“aftergrass”), Latvian atãls (“aftergrass”). See: Bulgarian Nouns '*товя'.

Verbs referencing "отава"

Romanian Nouns otavă.

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