shpardh

Albanian

Alternative forms

shparr
shparth
Gheg: shperdhë f, shpardha f
Tosk: shpardhe f, shpardhje f

Etymology

Enlargement with the collective suffix -dh(ë) of variant shparr.[1] Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *is-pardza, from Proto-Indo-European *perǵ- (compare Lithuanian pérgas ‘fishing canoe’, Polish próg ‘threshold, doorstep’).[2]

Noun

shpardh m (indefinite plural shpardhe, definite singular shpardhi, definite plural shpardhet)

Italian oak (Quercus frainetto)

Hypernyms

dushk

Coordinate terms

bung, ilqe, lis, qarr

References

Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Amsterdam–Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), 365–6.
Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 427.

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