esh

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See also: Esh

English

Pronunciation

Noun

esh (plural eshes)

  1. The IPA symbol ʃ.

Anagrams


Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From South Slavic; cf. Macedonian еж (), Serbo-Croatian је̑ж (jȇž).[1][2] Alternatively, variant eshk would be more conservative, from Proto-Albanian *etska, with devoicing from *edz-k-a, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰis; cognate with Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos), Macedonian еж (), German Igel, Lithuanian ežỹs.[3]

Noun

esh m (plural eshë, definite eshi, definite plural eshët)

  1. (regional) hedgehog
  2. (regional, figurative) look-alike, doppelgänger

Declension

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Åarhus: Aarhus UP, 1992), 142.
  2. ^ Ylli, Xhelal (1997) Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350)‎[1], volume I. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 72
  3. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “esh”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 90