grath

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From *granth, diminutive in -th from South Slavic (cf. Serbo-Croatian grana (“branch; brushwood”), Macedonian гранка (granka), dialectal Bulgarian гран (gran)).[1] Alternatively, with voicing of initial, from krath (“leaf bud, sprout on a tree”), variant of kranth ~ krëndth, diminutive of krand ~ krënd (“brushwood; tinder”).[2]

Noun

grath m (plural grathë, definite grathi)

  1. jagged tooth (of a cog, etc.)
  2. saw tooth
  3. bristle, hard sliver
  4. flax straw, flax stem
  5. flax hards

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Eqrem Çabej, Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes, vol. V.
  2. ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 225

Middle English

Noun

grath

  1. Alternative form of garth
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