тесам

Bulgarian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic тесати (tesati), from Proto-Slavic *tesati (a-conjugation), an intensive/iterative variant of an earlier a/j-conjugation *testi.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛsɐm]
  • Audio (Standard Bulgarian):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛsɐm
  • Syllabification(key): те‧сам

Verb

те́сам • (tésam) first-singular present indicativeimpf (perfective те́свам)

  1. (transitive, dialectal) to patch, to smooth out with knife (or another sharp tool)
  2. (transitive) to remove darnels, to weed

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • втесам (vtesam), втесвам (vtesvam)
  • изтесам (iztesam), изтесвам (iztesvam)
  • натесам (natesam), натесвам (natesvam)
  • отесам (otesam), отесвам (otesvam)
  • тесало (tesalo, tool for patching)

References

  1. ^ Dimitrova-Todorova, L. D., Selimski, L. P., editors (2017), “тесам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 8 (тèсам – фя̀калка), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 7
  • тесам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014

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