shkarth

Albanian

Etymology

From *karth, variant of kërth. For semantic development compare kërthi 'tiny, baby', Lithuanian tarnas (“servant”), Sanskrit तर्णक (tarṇaka, “calf”), तरुण (táruṇa, “young, boy”) [1].

Noun

shkarth m (indefinite plural shkartha, definite singular shshkarthi, definite plural shkarthat)

  1. servant, slave

References
  1. A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p.417-418
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