bredh

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɾɛð/

Noun

bredh m (indefinite plural bredha, definite singular bredhi, definite plural bredhat)

  1. (botany) Norway spruce (Picea abies)
  2. (botany) fir (Abies)
Derived terms
  • bredhishtë, bredhtë, breshtë
  • brethk, brethkël

References

  1. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 34.
  2. Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 230.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *bredza, from earlier *breda, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰredʰe/o ‘to wade’ (compare Slovene brédem (I wade), Lithuanian breñda (he wades)).

Verb

bredh (first-person singular past tense brodha, participle bredhur)

  1. to wander
  2. to jump, spring

Conjugation

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