mitë

See also: mite and mité

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *meita. Compare Lithuanian miẽtas (“post, stake”), Old Norse meiðr (“beam”), Sanskrit मेथी (methí, “pillar, post”)[1].

Noun

mitë f (indefinite plural mita, definite singular mita, definite plural mitat)

  1. (botany) shoot

Derived terms

References
  1. A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill, Leiden 2000, pp.136
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