kërnalle

Albanian

Etymology

Unknown. Maybe a substrate word, along with archaic Romanian genune (“sea”), reconstructing archaic *keùrnaulia. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kəɹˈnaɫɛ]

Noun

kërnálle f (plural kërnalle, definite kërnallja, definite plural kërnallet)

1. (poetic) desert
2. (figurative) empty place
3. (Arbëresh) ocean

Synonyms

• ujanë
• oqean

Further reading

• “kërnalle”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• Newmark, L. (1999), “kërnalle”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]