въртоп

Bulgarian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vьrtъpъ, cognate with Serbo-Croatian вртоп, Slovene vrtȅp, Russian верте́п (vertép, “cave”). Attested with the meaning cave, garden in Old Church Slavonic врьтъпъ (vrĭtŭpŭ). Loaned into Romanian Vârtop (toponym).

According to Georgiev (BER), probably an ancient compound word from Bulgarian въртя (vǎrtja, “to rotate”) + the descendant of Proto-Balto-Slavic *upas (“water”) (cf. Lithuanian ùpė (“river”), Latvian upe (“spring, water”)). This etymology however fails to explain the additional meanings garden, cave attested in Church Slavonic and in other Slavic languages.

Noun

върто̀п • (vǎrtòp) m

whirlpool
Synonym: водовъртеж (vodovǎrtež)
(dialectal) narrow turn (landscape formation)

Inflection

Inflection of въртоп

	singular	plural
indefinite	въртоп	въртопи
definite (subject form)	въртопът	въртопите
definite (object form)	въртопа	въртопите
count form	—	въртопа
vocative form	въртопе	въртопи

Related terms

въртя (vǎrtja, “to rotate, to turn around”)
врът (vrǎt, “fruit garden”) (dialectal)
врат (vrat, “neck”)
врата (vrata, “door”)

References

въртоп in Речник на българския език
Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1971), “въртоп”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 212

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