arsye

Albanian

Etymology

From an earlier *rrësye, rendered as masculine arsye (definite singular arseu, indefinite plural arsenje) in Buzuku and feminine arrësye in Budi; from Latin ratiōnem (“reason”). Latin ō > Albanian e is regular in older borrowings, developing into -ye when succeeded by a syllabic consonant. The initial a- is prothetic.[1] Alternatively, a borrowing from Vulgar Latin *arratiōnis from the same Latin source.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [aɾˈsy.ɛ]

Noun

arsye f (indefinite plural arsye, definite singular arsyeja, definite plural arsyet)

  1. reason
  2. rationality
  3. reason (cause)

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References
  1. Topalli, Kolec (2017), “arsye”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 123
  2. Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 224.
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