глашатай

Bulgarian

Etymology

By surface analysis, глася́ (glasjá, “to voice”) +‎ -тай (-taj).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡɫɐʃɐˈtaj]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

глашата́й • (glašatáj) m (feminine глашата́йка) (historical)

1. spokesman, town crier, mouthpiece (person who used to make proclamations to the common folk, before the development of mass media)

Declension

Declension of глашата́й

	singular	plural
indefinite	глашата́й glašatáj	глашата́и glašatái
definite (subject form)	глашата́ят glašatájat	глашата́ите glašatáite
definite (object form)	глашата́я glašatája
count form	—	глашата́я glašatája
vocative form	глашата́ю glašatáju	глашата́и glašatái

References

• “глашатай”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “глашатай”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Russian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic глашатаи (glašatai, “herald”), itself from Proto-Slavic *golšatajь (“herald”), a compound of *golšati (“to speak”) and *-ajь (“deverbal suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡɫɐˈʂatəj]

Noun

глаша́тай • (glašátaj) m inan (genitive глаша́тая, nominative plural глаша́таи, genitive plural глаша́таев, feminine глашатайка)

1. herald, spokesman, town crier, mouthpiece (person who used to make proclamations to the common folk, before the development of mass media)

Declension

Declension of глаша́тай (inan masc-form vowel-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	глаша́тай glašátaj	глаша́таи glašátai
genitive	глаша́тая glašátaja	глаша́таев glašátajev
dative	глаша́таю glašátaju	глаша́таям glašátajam
accusative	глаша́тай glašátaj	глаша́таи glašátai
instrumental	глаша́таем glašátajem	глаша́таями glašátajami
prepositional	глаша́тае glašátaje	глаша́таях glašátajax