punë

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See also: pune, puñe, puñé, Pune, and PUNE

Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

The current form is a participle of an obsolete form *pojë, which is a zero-grade suffixed derivation of *h₃ep- (to work). Relationship with Hittite [script needed] (ḫappinaḫḫ, to become rich) is unclear, even though there have been cases in which an older -i- has become a -u- (ahu (beech) is also attested as ahi in older dictionaries), making it possible for this word to have been *pina with a different meaning.

Alternatively a derivative in -në of an unused verb *puaj, continuing Proto-Albanian *pānja. The latter is related to Ancient Greek πένομαι (pénomai, to strain, work on) and its deverbative πόνος (pónos), with uncertain further links.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

punë f (plural punë, definite puna, definite plural punët)

  1. work; labour; job

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “punë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 249-250