shtreth
Albanian
Etymology
- Compound of sh- (“de-, dis-, un-”) + dredh (“turn, revolve, twist”).
- Prefix sh- (“de-, dis-, un-”) from the same root as ith (“behind”), namely Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs.[1]
- dredh from Proto-Albanian *drē̆δ-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵʰ-. Cognate to Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn, revolve”),[2] Gothic dragan (“to draw, accumulate, take on”), English drag. Related to dridh (“tremble, quake rock, move”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *dreδ-, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *d(h)r- (“to tremble, quake, rock”). Cognate to Lithuanian drebù (“to tremble, quake”).[3]
- A variant of shtreze, from shtroj,[4] related to shtrij.
- According to Orel, from shtrat.[5]
Noun
shtreth m (plural shtrethe, definite shtrethi, definite plural shtrethat)
Related terms
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 173-174
- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[2] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 143
- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[3] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 143
- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[4] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 379
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shtreth”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 442