baltnjeri

Albanian

Etymology

From baltë +‎ njeri. First attested in the 18th century, uniquely identified in the prose text by Chetta: "Se baltnjeriu të jēt i lumzuam..." (So that man, formed from earth, may be happy...).^[1]

Noun

baltnjeri m

(poetic, obsolete) earth-man; human being created by God from earth

Related terms

baltfarë (Poetic, Chetta)

References

^ Demiraj, Bardhyl et al. (2021), “baltnjeri”, in DPEWA. Digitales Philologisch-Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altalbanischen [DPEWA. Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of Old Albanian]

[1] Demiraj, Bardhyl et al. (2021), “baltnjeri”, in DPEWA. Digitales Philologisch-Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altalbanischen [DPEWA. Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of Old Albanian]

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