леджа

Bulgarian

Etymology

Fossilized plurale tantum of Proto-Slavic *lędvьje (attested as Old Church Slavonic лѧдвиѩ pl (lędviję, “loins”)), probably spread from western dialects. Compare Serbo-Croatian ле́ђа pl (“back”). Semantic shift analogous to Bulgarian коля́но (koljáno, “generation, lineage”) (literally: knee).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈlʲɛdʒə]

Noun

ле́джа • (lédža) f

(dialectal, obsolescent, figurative) lineage, descendants, offsprings
Synonyms: поколе́ние (pokolénie), пото́мство (potómstvo), (pejorative) па́сма (pásma)

Declension

Declension of ле́джа

	singular	plural
indefinite	ле́джа lédža	ле́джи lédži
definite	ле́джата lédžata	ле́джите lédžite

References

Georgiev V. I., editor (1986), “леджа”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 345

Further reading

лѧдвиѩ in Исторически речник на Българския език, Sofia University

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