bërthamë

Albanian

Etymology

A compound of bërth, a variant of bathë + amë (“mother”), literally conveying the meaning of 'mother of the fruit'[1].

Noun

bërthamë f

  1. seed, core, nucleus

References
  1. A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill, Leiden 2000, p.23
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