Relating to Bulgaria, Bulgarians, or the Bulgarian language; a rare or archaic variant of 'Bulgarian.'
From 'Bulgaria' plus the adjectival suffix '-ic,' similar to patterns like 'Germanic' or 'Hispanic.' This form appears mainly in older texts and has been largely replaced by the standard 'Bulgarian.'
The suffix '-ic' makes adjectives from place names and peoples, but it often gets replaced by '-ian' as languages standardize—'Bulgaric' lost out to 'Bulgarian,' just as 'Germaic' lost out to 'Germanic.'
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