mjedër

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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

  1. raspberry
  2. mulberry
  3. tares

References

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mjedhër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 269