гръклян

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Bulgarian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Possibly a blend of Old Church Slavonic грътань (grŭtanĭ) +‎ гъ́рло (gǎ́rlo), which would yield *гъртлан (compare dialectal Romanian gîrtlan), and then a dialectal change of -тл- > -кл-. Cognates include Macedonian грклан (grklan), Serbo-Croatian гр̀кљан, Lithuanian gurklỹs (neck) and Old Prussian gurcle (throat).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ɡrɐˈklʲa̟n]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification(key): гръ‧клян
  • Hyphenation(key): грък‧лян

Noun[edit]

гръкля́н (grǎkljánm (relational adjective гръкля́нов or гръкля́нен)

  1. (anatomy, zootomy) larynx
    Synonym: ла́ринкс (lárinks)

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References[edit]

  • гръклян”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • гръклян”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “гръклан, гръклян”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 288