mjedër
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Albanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the more conservative variant mjedhër, from Proto-Albanian *mesdrā, presumably cognate with Lithuanian mẽdis (“tree; wood”) and Latvian mežs (“wood”);[1] however, these are in fact from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”). On both semantic and phonetic grounds, one might also consider a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey, mead”).
Noun[edit]
mjedër f (plural mjedra, definite mjedra, definite plural mjedrat)
References[edit]
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mjedhër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 269