сокач
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Bulgarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Old Church Slavonic сокачьи (sokačĭi, “butcher”), Hungarian szakács (“cook”), of unclear origin:
- Perhaps an Oghur borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *sok- (“to stuff, to penetrate”);
- From unattested Proto-Slavic *sokati (“to cut”), akin to e-grade Bulgarian сека́ (seká, “to cut”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]сока́ч • (sokáč) m (feminine сока́чица)
- (obsolete) cook, butcher
- (dialectal, Banat) person in charge of catering during weddings or other ceremonies
Declension
[edit]Declension of сока́ч
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “сокач(ица)”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 292
- “сокачии”, in Старобългарски речник [Old Bulgarian Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2024