thelb

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • singular: thelp (pl. thelpinj), thalb, thalp
  • plural: thelbe, thelba, thalba, thelbna

Etymology

From older and dialectal thalb, from Proto-Albanian *tsalba, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- 'to cover' (compare Ancient Greek κέλῦφος (kélûphos) ‘shell, pod’, Old English heolstor ‘darkness’).[1]

Noun

thelb m (indefinite plural thelpinj, definite singular thelbi)

  1. kernel (of nut), meat (of walnut)
  2. core, pith, stone (of fruit)
  3. clove (of garlic)
  4. (botany) cotyledon
  5. (figuratively) core, essence, heart

Derived terms

References
  1. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 474.
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