shpor

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Albanian

Etymology

Either from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *per- (to bear, lead across, penetrate) (cf. shpoj and shporr), or a loanword from Gothic, through an unattested (Vulgar) Latin *spora.[1]

Noun

shpor m (plural shporë, definite shpori, definite plural shporët)

  1. spur, rooster's breast
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shpor”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 430