shqa

Albanian
Alternative forms
  • shkja

Etymology

From Late Latin sclavus or Sclavus, from Byzantine Greek σκλάβος (sklábos, “Slav”) or Σκλάβος (Sklábos), which see for more.[1]. Compare Romanian șcheau (“Bulgarian, (South) Slav”), șchiau, Aromanian shcljau. Doublet of skllav (“slave”), a later borrowing.

Noun

shqa m (indefinite plural shqa, definite singular shqau, definite plural shqatë)

  1. a Bulgarian (or generally any person of South Slavic ethnicity)

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (2000) A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, Leiden: Brill, page 432
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