nepërkë
Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Orel suggests from older nepërtkë, originally ‘hatchling snake’, thought to be from South Slavic *nepŭrtŭkŭ (compare Bulgarian непрътък (neprătăk, “buttercup, yellowgold”)).[1] Some considered to be native,[2][3] while Matasović considered it a term borrowed from some Balkan substratum language.[4]
Noun
[edit]nepërkë f (plural nepërka, definite nepërka, definite plural nepërkat)
- adder, viper
- sand viper, nose-horned viper (Vipera ammodytes)
- (figurative) snake-in-the-grass, crafty and dishonorable person
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | nepërkë | nepërka | nepërka | nepërkat |
| accusative | nepërkën | |||
| dative | nepërke | nepërkës | nepërkave | nepërkave |
| ablative | nepërkash | |||
Hyponyms
[edit]- nepërkë uji (“dice snake”) (Natrix tessellata)
- nepërkë e zakonshme (“sand viper”) (Vipera ammodytes)
References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “nepërkë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 290
- ^ Svane, Gunnar (1992), Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Acta Iutlandica. Humanistische Reihe; 67) (in German), Åarhus: Aarhus University Press, →ISBN, page 144
- ^ Eqrem Çabej, Gjuha jonë (Tiranë: Akademia e Shkencave e RPS të Shqipërisë, 1988), 28.
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2024). A Grammatical Sketch of Albanian for Students of Indo-European. Zagreb. Page 46
Further reading
[edit]- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1], 1980
- “nepërkë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Newmark, Leonard (1999), “nepërkë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[2], Oxford: Oxford University Press