kalë
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "kale"
Albanian
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from Late Latin caballus (“horse”).[1][2] Topalli suggests Gheg plural kual borrowed from Italian descendant cavallo, with phonetic development *këval > *kval > kual, whereas Tosk and standard kuaj was influenced by buaj, plural of buall (“bull”).[1] Compare Romanian cal, Aromanian cal, French cheval, Lombard càal.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kalë m (plural kuaj, definite kali, definite plural kuajt)
- horse (Equus caballus)
- Synonym: at
- (chess) knight
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | kalë | kali | kuaj | kuajt |
accusative | kalin | |||
dative | kali | kalit | kuajve | kuajve |
ablative | kuajsh |
Hypernyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Topalli, Kolec (2017) “kalë”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in Albanian), Durrës, Albania: Jozef, pages 696-697
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kalë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 166
Further reading
[edit]- Bardhi, Frang (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 9: “caballus, cavallo — caale”
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