Albanian
Etymology
From Byzantine Greek στέριφος (stériphos), which also gave Romanian sterp, Venetian sterpo, Friulian sterpe.[1][2]
Adjective
shterp
- barren, infertile
References
- ^ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 437.
- ^ Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Amsterdam–Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), 373.