bashkë

See also: bashkë-

Albanian

Alternative forms

mbashkë

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *bá(r)śtᵊkə, with r-loss before a fricative (see buzë) and postsynocopal simplification of the plosive cluster tᵊk > tk > k, from Pre-Proto-Albanian *bárśtukā-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰórs-tu-kah₂- (“mass of hair”), collective of Proto-Indo-European *bʰorstu-kó- (“hairy”).^[1]

An origin from Proto-Albanian *baskā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”), is unlikely as the PIE *-sk- cluster would lead to Albanian -h-, not -shk- (*-sk- > *-hk- > *-kh- > *-kʰ- > -h-). The Proto-Albanian form itself would have been *bakʰā > *bahë.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baʃkə/

Noun

bashkë m (definite bashka)

fleece

Adverb

bashkë

together
Synonym: avari
simultaneously

Derived terms

Related terms

bokshe

References

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

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

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