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