katund

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • katûn(d) (Gheg), kotun (South Gheg, Arbanasi)

Etymology

Originally ‘hut’, compound of ka ‘out, from’ and tund ‘to shake, dangle’, a calque of Slavic *kolyba ‘hut’, folk-etymologized from *kolybati ‘to shake’.[1] Another explanation suggests a borrowing from Italian cantone (“region”).[2]

Noun

katund m (indefinite plural katunde, definite singular katundi, definite plural katundet)

  1. village
    Gjithmonë kanë jetuar në katund.
    They have always lived in the village.
  2. (historical) community of herdsmen
  3. (historical) widely spread-out village
  4. (Arvanitic) henhouse; disarray

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • katundar
  • katundari
  • katundës
  • katundisht

References
  1. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 174.
  2. Topalli, Kolec (2017), “katund”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 736
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