hundë

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See also: hunde, Hunde, and Hünde

Albanian

Etymology

Originally ‘snout’, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *skuntā, from *skuna (“take, pole”) (modern hu), close to Proto-Germanic *skuna, *skunō (compare Faroese skon, Norwegian skut (“projection, overhang”)).[1][2] More at hu.

Noun

hundë f (plural hundë, definite hunda, definite plural hundët)

  1. nose
  2. tapered protrusion; ship's prow, promontory
  3. (colloquial) spout
  4. (geography) cape, promontory, point

Derived terms

derivatives

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References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “hundë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 152
  2. ^ Adam Hyllested, “Albanian hundë ‘nose’ and Faroese, SW Norwegian skon ‘snout’”, in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (Bremen: Hempen, 2012), 73-81.
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