fshat
Albanian
Etymology
From Byzantine Greek φοσσᾶτον (phossâton), φουσσᾶτον (phoussâton, “encampment”), from Late Latin fossātum (“entrenchment, place enclosed by a ditch”).[1][2]
Noun
fshat m (plural fshatra, definite fshati, definite plural fshatrat)
- village
- rural area, countryside
Coordinate terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Guillaume Bonnet, Les mots latins de l’albanais (Paris–Montreal: L’Harmattan, 1998), 369
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fshat”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 104