shtrek

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Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *streka, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ster- (unclean liquid, manure). Compare Latin stercus (excrement), Breton stronk, Welsh trwnc (id).[1]

Noun

shtrek m (plural shtriqe, definite shtreku, definite plural shtriqet)

  1. corpse, carrion

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN