krah

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Albanian

Alternative forms

  • indefinite singular: krahë (m.; Tosk, Arvanitic, Gheg), kra ([kɾaː])
  • definite singular: krahi (Gheg, Old Albanian), kraha (f.; Bardhi)
  • indefinite plural: kraha (m.; Arvanitic)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *krau, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₂u, *ḱrh₂eu (limb). Close to Latin crūs.[1] Alternatively from archaic krahi, definite krai (Buzuku), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "zls" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. *krajь (end; rim, edge; region) (cf. Serbo-Croatian krȃj, Bulgarian край (kraj)). Similar sense development in Bulgarian край (kraj), крайник (krajnik), краиште (kraište), all meaning ‘limb’.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

krah m (plural krahë, definite krahu, definite plural krahët)

  1. arm
  2. shoulders and upper back
  3. armful
  4. armrest
  5. wing
  6. flank

Declension

Derived terms

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 224
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “krah”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 193-4

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Krach.

Pronunciation

Noun

krȁh m (Cyrillic spelling кра̏х)

  1. ruin, disaster, crash

Declension

References

  • krah” in Hrvatski jezični portal