mërkosh
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Albanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From mërk + -osh suffix expressing endearment, from Proto-Indo-European *meryo (“young man, woman”). Compare Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “knave, boy, girl”), Latin maritus (“married (of men)”), Lithuanian mergà, Old Prussian mergo (“girl, bondmaid”), Cornish myrgh (“daughter, woman”). Alternatively from Latin maricosus[1]
Noun[edit]
mërkosh m (plural mërkosha, definite mërkoshi, definite plural mërkoshët)
- man (who has just become a father)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN