Etymologically

Bulgarian etymology in numbers

Counted from the etymologies of the 1 Bulgarian entry in this dictionary, and recounted every few hours as entries are added. See also Bulgarian words by origin.

Borrowed, inherited or formed

Each entry counted once: as borrowed if its etymology names a language it was taken from, else as inherited, else as formed within Bulgarian.

  • Borrowed 0% · 0 taken from another language
  • Inherited 100% · 1 passed down from an ancestor of Bulgarian
  • Formed in Bulgarian 0% · 0 compounds and derivatives of its own words
  • Not traced yet 0% · 0 no etymology links yet

Ultimate origins by language family

Where the 1 traced word end up when their etymologies are followed back as far as they go, from entry to entry, grouped into families and the branches of Indo-European.

  1. Balto-Slavic 1 · 100% Proto-Slavic 1

Words other languages took from Bulgarian

11 entries of other languages in this dictionary were borrowed from Bulgarian or its earlier stages.

  1. Aromanian 6 pri, zbor, nai, grai
  2. Russian 4 жертва, довлеть, совет, или
  3. English 1 lev

Most prolific roots

The words that the most Bulgarian entries go back to, at the far end of their etymologies.

  1. 1 Proto-Slavic *voda → вода

Longest journeys

The Bulgarian words whose etymologies pass through the most languages, followed from entry to entry.

  1. вода 2 languages

    Old Church Slavonic вода ← Proto-Slavic *voda