свидетел

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian свидетель (svidetelʹ), formally an agent noun of the obsolete сведя (svedja, “to witness, to know”) +‎ -тел (-tel) (in Russian, OCS -ѣ- sometimes transforms into -и-). Replaced the native Bulgarian сведък (svedǎk).

Noun

свидетел • (svidetel) m

  1. witness

Inflection
Inflection of свидетел
singular plural
indefinite свидетел свидетели
definite
(subject form)		 свидетелят свидетелите
definite
(object form)		 свидетеля
count form — свидетеля
vocative form свидетелю свидетели

Derived terms
  • свидетелствам (svidetelstvam, “to act as an witness (in the court)”)
  • свидетелство (svidetelstvo, “evidence”)
  • сведение (svedenie, “information”)
  • ведие (vedie, “knowledge”)

References
  • свидетел in Речник на българския език
  • Račeva M., Todorov T., editors (2002), “свидетел”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 546
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