Reconstruction:Illyrian/drakoina
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Illyrian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *dorkw-o-.Cognate to Ancient Greek δόρπον (dórpon, “supper, dinner; evening”) and Albanian darkë (“supper, dinner; evening”).[1] Has entered the declension of the feminine ā-stems. According to A. Lubotsky and M. de Vaan, considering the distribution of the term, Greek, Albanian and Illyrian strongly suggest borrowings from an old Balkan substrate source.[2]
Noun
[edit]*drakoina
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “Illyrian/drakoina”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 123