fyt

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spūta, from Proto-Indo-European *stpuH-[1] ‘to spit’ (compare Latin spuere, Greek πτύω (ptýo), Lithuanian spiáuti).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fyt/

Noun

fyt m (indefinite plural fyte, definite singular fyti, definite plural fytet)

  1. throat

Declension

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References

  1. Guus Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 468.
  2. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 107.
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