mëlçi
Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
mëlçi f (plural mëlçi, definite mëlçia, definite plural mëlçitë)
Hyponyms
Synonyms
- mushkëri (“lungs”) (Tosk)
- mushkni (“lungs”) (Gheg)
- shpretka (“liver”) (Tosk)
- shpnetka (“liver”) (Gheg)
- shnetka (“liver”) (archaic)[2] (used in Kosovo and North Macedonia)
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mëlçi”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 259
- ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 134, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder