mëz

See also: mez, MEZ, méz, mez', and měź

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • Tosk: mës
  • Gheg: mâz, maz
  • plural: mëzenj, mëzër

Etymology

Tosk form of Gheg mâz, from Old Albanian manz (Buzuku), from Proto-Albanian *mandja, from *mand- ‘to feed (trans.), suckle’ (modern mënd).[1][2] Lent Romanian mânz.[1] More at mënd.

Noun

mëz m (indefinite plural mëza, definite singular mëzi, definite plural mëzat)

  1. foal
  2. colt

Derived terms

References
  1. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 265.
  2. Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien (Amsterdam–Atlanta: Rodopoi, 1997), 267.
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