bahe

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Albanian

Etymology

A singularized plural, based on a more archaic *bahë, from Proto-Albanian *bajā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (to strike, beat). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *bautaną (to beat) and Latin fustis (knobbed stick, cudgel). [1]

Noun

bahe f (plural bahe, definite baha, definite plural bahet)

  1. sling

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 14