mjedër

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • mjedhër, mjetërr, midër, mitër

Etymology

From the more conservative variant mjedhër, from Proto-Albanian *mesdrā, presumably cognate with Lithuanian mẽdis ‘tree; wood’ and Latvian mežs (“wood”);[1] however, these are in fact from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos ‘middle’. On both semantic and phonetic grounds, one might also consider a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *médʰu ‘honey, mead’.

Noun

mjedër f (indefinite plural mjedra, definite singular mjedra, definite plural mjedrat)

  1. raspberry

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “mjedër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 269
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