bahe
See also: Bahe
Albanian
Etymology
A singularized plural, based on a more archaic *bahë, from Proto-Albanian *bajā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to beat”) and Latin fustis (“knobbed stick, cudgel”). [1]
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2000) A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, Leiden: Brill, page 14
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