shtalbër

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Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *stalba, from Proto-Indo-European *stolb- (compare Old Norse stolpi (beam, girder), Lithuanian stũlbas (post, pole), Proto-Slavic *stъlbъ (post, pole)).[1]

Noun[edit]

shtalbër m (dialectal)

  1. wooden snare
  2. silk vine (Periploca (Apocynaceae)))

References[edit]

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shtalbër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 435