fyshkem

Albanian
Alternative forms

Etymology

From fishkët, from Proto-Albanian *spũška, cognate with Lithuanian pùškas, pùškas (“blister, fin, pimple”), Latvian pusks (“tuft”)[1]

Verb

fyshkem (first-person singular past tense fyshka, participle fyshkur)

  1. wither, fade, dry up

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “fyshkem”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 97
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