dhelpër

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • dhelpën (Gheg), dhelpë (North Gheg), ledhpë (North Gheg)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *dzelpinā, altered from earlier *welpinā, diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *h₂u̯l(o)p ~ *h₂ulp ‘(red) fox’ (compare Italian volpe, Lithuanian lãpė, Greek αλεπού (alepoú), Armenian աղվես (ałves)).[1]

Noun

dhelpër f (indefinite plural dhelpra, definite singular dhelpra, definite plural dhelprat)

  1. fox

Declension

Synonyms

References

  1. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 81.
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