sharrë

Albanian

Etymology

From shaj, ultimately from çaj, with -r doubling for expressive reasons. Compare Hittite [Term?] (/šarra/, “break, rupture, divide”), Latin serra (“id”), Lithuanian sėris (“filament”)[1]. Alternatively from Latin serra; compare Aromanian sharã.

Noun

sharrë f

  1. saw

Derived terms
  • sharrë dore

References
  1. “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, J. Pokorny, 1959, Bern : Francke, pp. 911
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