невен

Bulgarian

цвете невен

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nevěnъ, a conflation of two synonymous stems:

• Deverbal from не- (ne-) +‎ *vędnǫti (“to fade, to wither”).
• Contraction of не- (ne-) +‎ *věxanъ (“contorted, buckled”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɛvɛn]
• IPA^(key): [nɛˈvɛn]

Noun

не́вен or неве́н • (néven or nevén) m

1. marigold (flower of genus Calendula)

Declension

Declension of не́вен

	singular
indefinite	не́вен néven
definite (subject form)	не́венът névenǎt
definite (object form)	не́вена névena

Alternative forms

• невя́н (nevján), левя́н (levján) — nonstandard
• неве́хан (nevéhan) — obsolete, full form

Derived terms

nouns

• не́венец (névenec)
• не́венуга (névenuga)

Related terms

• наве́хна pf (navéhna), навя́хвам impf (navjáhvam, “to sprain, to wrick”)

References

• “невен”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “невен”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov (1899) “не́вѧнъ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 258
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “невен”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 586

Macedonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɛvɛn]

Noun

невен • (neven) m

1. marigold