fshat

Albanian

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek φοσσᾶτον (phossâton), φουσσᾶτον (phoussâton) ‘encampment’, from Late Latin fossātum (“entrenchment, place enclosed by a ditch”).[1][2]

Noun

fshat m (indefinite plural fshatra, definite singular fshati, definite plural fshatrat)

  1. village
  2. rural area, countryside

Coordinate terms

Descendants
  • → Romanian: sat, fsat

References
  1. Guillaume Bonnet, Les mots latins de l’albanais (Paris–Montreal: L’Harmattan, 1998), 369
  2. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 104.
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