kopsht

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Albanian

Etymology

Variant kopësht. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *kāp-(śt-), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *keh2po- (land, garden). Cognate to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (Northwest) κῆπος (kêpos) (compare modern κήπος (kḗpos)), Old High German huoba (plot of land).[1][2]

Noun

kopsht m (plural kopshte, definite kopshti, definite plural kopshtet)

  1. garden
  2. kindergarten
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References

  1. ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: []] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 222
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[2], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 160