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клефам

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Bulgarian

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Etymology

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  • According to BER: of onomatopoeic origin.
  • According to ESSJa: ultimately a factitive from Proto-Slavic *klěvъ (crooked).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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кле́фам (kléfam) first-singular present indicativeimpf (perfective клефна) (dialectal, colloquial)

  1. (intransitive) to hop on one leg
  2. (intransitive) to walk, to stroll in a peculiar way

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See also

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References

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  • клефам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “клефам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 442

Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*klěvati/*klěviti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 27