lëndinë

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • ledinë
  • lendinë

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Slavic *lędina (“untilled land”): compare Serbo-Croatian lèdina, Bulgarian леди́на (ledína).[1][2][3][4]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ləndiːn/

Noun

lëndinë m (indefinite plural lëndina, definite singular lëndina, definite plural lëndinat)

  1. untilled land
  2. meadow

Synonyms

References
  1. Ylli, Xhelal (1997) Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350)‎, volume I. Lehnwörter, München: Verlag Otto Sagner, page 148
  2. Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1986), “lëndinë”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume III, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 345
  3. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “lëndinë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 223
  4. Topalli, Kolec (2017), “lëndinë”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 882-883
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