katund

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κατοῦνα (katoûna, soldier's tent, tent camp).[1][2] Orel derives it as compound of ka (out, from) and tund (to shake, dangle), supposedly a calque of South Slavic *kolyba (hut), folk-etymologized from *kolybati (to shake);[3] however, Slavic is actually a loan from Ancient Greek καλύβη (kalúbē).

Noun

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katund m (plural katunde, definite katundi, definite plural katundet)

  1. village
    Gjithmonë kanë jetuar në katund.
    They have always lived in the village.
  2. (historical) community of herdsmen
  3. (historical) widely spread-out village
  4. (Arvanitika) henhouse; disarray

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References

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  1. ^ Demetrios Moutsos, “Middle Greek ϰατοῦνα and Albanian katunt”, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 88, no. 1 (1974): 59–73.
  2. ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “katund”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 736
  3. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “katund”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 174