Κροαί
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The name of the city is borrowed from Proto-Albanian *krāna (“fountain”) (modern krua).[1][2]
The city was attested for the first time as Byzantine Greek Κροαί (Kroaí) in Byzantine documents of the early 7th century.[3] In Medieval Latin it was known as Croia, Croya, and Croarum.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kroˈe/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kroˈe/
Proper noun[edit]
Κροαί • (Kroaí) f (genitive Κροαίς); first declension
Descendants[edit]
- → Latin: Croia
References[edit]
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian etymological dictionary[1], Brill, →ISBN, page 198
- ^ Fishta, Gjergj; Elsie, Robert (2005). The Highland Lute. I.B.Tauris. p. 434. →ISBN. />
- ^ Fishta, Gjergj, Elsie, Robert (2005) The Highland Lute[2], I.B.Tauris, →ISBN, page 434: “it was first referred to as Kroai in a Byzantine document in the early seventh century.”
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