mjekër
Appearance
Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- mjekërr
- mjekrë — earlier
- mnjekrë — Arvanitika
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *smeḱr-u or a similar variant of original *smóḱwr̥ (“beard; chin”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mjekër f (plural mjekra, definite mjekra)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | mjekër | mjekra | mjekra | mjekrat |
accusative | mjekrën | |||
dative | mjekre | mjekrës | mjekrave | mjekrave |
ablative | mjekrash |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1], 1980, page 1155a
- Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) “zama(n)kur”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1029f.
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mjekër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 269f.
- Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[2] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 273
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “smek-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 968
- Meyer, G. (1891) “mjekrɛ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, , page 282