shotë

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See also: shote

Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *sjāutā, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *sau̯i̯eto, with a metathesis. Cognate to Welsh hwyad, Old Cornish hoet (id), Breton houat (id).[1]

Noun

shotë f (plural shotë, definite shotja, definite plural shotet)

  1. big duck
  2. (colloquial) woman from Northern Albania

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shotë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 257