zjarr

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • zjarm, ɛiarm [zjaɾm] (Gheg) [1]
  • ζηᾶρμ [zjaʀm] (Arvanite) [2]

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *dźerm-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-mós (whence Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós), Old Armenian ջերմ (ǰerm)), from *gʷʰer- (hot, warm).[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zjar/

Noun

zjarr m (indefinite plural zjarre, definite singular zjarri, definite plural zjarret)

  1. fire

Declension

References

  1. Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 151, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
  2. Λεξικόν της Ρωμαϊκοις και Αρβανητηκής Απλής (Lexicon of the simple Romaic and Arbanitic language), page 129, by Markos Botsaris
  3. Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997), zjarm”, in 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 429
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