yll

See also: YLL

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • hyll
  • plural: yj
  • East Gheg: uvill, uj, ydh
  • South Tosk, Arvanitic, Arbëreshë: ill, ull

Etymology

From Old Albanian ȳll (Budi <yyll>, Buzuku <uill>), from Proto-Albanian *usla, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁us-los (compare Old English ysle (“hot ashes”)), from *h₁ews- (“to burn”) (compare Latin ūrere, Ancient Greek εὕω (heúō, “to singe”)).[1] Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *h₂us-los (compare Sanskrit उस्र (usrá, “reddish, ruddy; bright; matutinal”)), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aurōra, Lithuanian aušrà).[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /yːɫ/

Noun

yll m (indefinite plural yje, definite singular ylli, definite plural yjet)

  1. (astronomy) star
  2. (colloquial) shooting star
  3. (figuratively, old) fate, luck
  4. (figuratively, colloquial) reputation
  5. (figuratively) guiding light
  6. (colloquial) wart, mole

Declension
declension of yll
indefinite forms
(trajta të pashquara)		 definite forms
(trajta të shquara)
singular
(numri njëjës)		 plural
(numri shumës)		 singular
(numri njëjës)		 plural
(numri shumës)
nominative
(emërore)		 yll yje ylli yjet
accusative
(kallëzore)		 yll yje yllin yjet
genitive
(gjinore)
(i/e/të/së)		 ylli yjeve yllit yjeve
dative
(dhanore)		 ylli yjeve yllit yjeve
ablative
(rrjedhore)		 ylli yjesh yllit yjeve

Synonyms
  • (fate, luck): fat, lumturi
  • (reputation): famë
  • (wart, mole): lez, lyth

Hyponyms
hyponyms
  • yll deti (“starfish”)
  • ylli i karvanit (“morning star, Venus”)
  • yll i mollës (“apple blossom”)
  • yll me bisht (“comet”)
  • ylli polar (“northern star”)

Derived terms

Compounds

References
  1. Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 206
  2. Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 220.
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