hamshor
Albanian
Alternative forms
- harmëshor
Etymology
From dialectal harmëshor, from Old Albanian harmëshuar, from Vulgar Latin *armissārius (compare Romanian armăsar), from Latin admissārius.[1][2]
Noun
hamshor m (indefinite plural hamshorë, definite singular hamshori, definite plural hamshorët)
- stallion
- stud horse
References
- Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary, s.v. “harmëshor” (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 143.
- Guillaume Bonnet, Les mots latins de l’albanais (Paris–Montreal: L’Harmattan, 1998), 232, 327.
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