пътека

Bulgarian

Alternative forms

• пътега (pătega), пътика (pătika), патика (patika), пъ́нтичка (pắntička) — dialectal, by analogy from пънт (pănt) (form of път (păt) with decomposed nasalism)

Etymology

From потека́ (poteká) with o > ъ via analogy with път (păt). The same in Macedonian патека (pateka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pɐˈtɛkɐ]

• Audio (Standard Bulgarian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
• Syllabification^(key): пъ‧те‧ка

Noun

пъте́ка • (pătéka) f

1. path, track (narrow path for pedestrians or animals)
2. runner (long narrow mat for floors, corridors and stairs)
3. (figurative) streak, track, trace, line on a surface

Declension

Declension of пъте́ка

	singular	plural
indefinite	пъте́ка pătéka	пъте́ки pătéki
definite	пъте́ката pătékata	пъте́ките pătékite

Descendants

• → Gagauz: patika
• → Romanian: potècă
• → Ottoman Turkish: پاتقه (patika)
  • Turkish: patika

Further reading

• “пътека”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “Пѫте́ка”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language] (in Bulgarian), gerov-rechnik.net, vol. 4 (1901).