Meaning of -отия | Babel Free

Definitions

Derives abstract or collective nouns with expressive connotation: -ity, -ness

morpheme

Examples

“лош (loš, “bad”) → лошоти́я (lošotíja, “malice, evilness”) прост (prost, “stupid”) → простоти́я (prostotíja, “stupidity”) гол (gol, “naked”) → голоти́я (golotíja, “nudity”) див (div, “wild”) → дивоти́я (divotíja, “wild behaviour”) бе́ден (béden, “poor”) → бедноти́я (bednotíja, “poverty”) мъ́чен (mǎ́čen, “painful, difficult”) → мъчноти́я (mǎčnotíja, “hardship”)”

“мъ́рся (mǎ́rsja, “to pollute”) → мръсоти́я (mrǎsotíja, “dirt, pollution”) грозя́ (grozjá, “to uglify”) → грозоти́я (grozotíja, “ugliness, eyescore”) гле́зя (glézja, “to spoil, to pamper”) → глезоти́я (glezotíja, “bratting, childish behaviour”) бъ́ркам (bǎ́rkam, “to stir”) → бъркоти́я (bǎrkotíja, “chaos, mess”) ня́мам (njámam, “to lack, to be devoid of”) → немоти́я (nemotíja, “penury”) лига́вя се (ligávja se, “to slobber”) → лиготи́я (ligotíja, “drooling, childish behaviour”)”

“вкус (vkus, “taste”) → вкусоти́я (vkusotíja, “deliciousness”) гнус (gnus, “disgust”) → гнусоти́я (gnusotíja, “nastiness”) срам (sram, “shame”) → срамоти́я (sramotíja, “shamefulness”) страх (strah, “fear”) → страхоти́я (strahotíja, “horror”)”

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