shpardh

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • shparr
  • shparth
  • Gheg: shperdhë f, shpardha f
  • Tosk: shpardhe f, shpardhje f

Etymology

Enlargement with the collective suffix -dh(ë) of variant shparr.[1] Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *is-pardza, from Proto-Indo-European *perǵ- (compare Lithuanian pérgas ‘fishing canoe’, Polish próg ‘threshold, doorstep’).[2]

Noun

shpardh m (indefinite plural shpardhe, definite singular shpardhi, definite plural shpardhet)

  1. Italian oak (Quercus frainetto)

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References
  1. Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Amsterdam–Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), 365–6.
  2. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 427.
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