hirrë

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ksirā, from Proto-Indo-European *ksiHr-neh₂, from *ksiHróm (milk) (compare Persian شیر (šir), Sinhalese කිරි (kiri)).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

hirrë f (definite hirra)

  1. whey

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “hirrë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 149