thërrmijë
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Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare thërrmoj (“crumble”), thërrime (“crumb”), seemingly suffixed with -i.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]thërrmijë f (plural thërrmija)
- crumb (esp. of bread, cheese), bit, fragment
- 1555, Gjon Buzuku, Meshari, Luke 16:21, page 48v, lines 12–14:
- tue deseruõ me ȣ ẽ / ћignune: ẽ fermisit ћi ꝑ ẽdene truesse teh / beћatet bignine:
- [tue dëshëruom me u ënginjunë ën fërmishit qi për ëndënë tryesë të begatët binjinë]
- wishing to be satiated with the crumbs that were falling under the table of the rich man
- 1621, Pjetër Budi, Rituale romanum, Rome, page 28, lines 21–22:
- easctu ende baamgatij, pak ξξerremij buke
- [e ashtu ende bām gatī, pak thërrëmī buke]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- particle, granule
- (physics) particle; molecule; atom
- a very small part of something
- një thërrmijë të dijes ― a speck of knowledge
- (figurative, dialectal) darling
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “thërrmíj/ë,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 2064b
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “thërmí”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 534b
- Rossi, F. (1875) “ξξermìi”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 1370b
Further reading
[edit]- Çabej, Eqrem (1966) “Studime rreth etimologjisë së gjuhës shqipe XXIII”, in Studime filologjike[2] (in Albanian), number 4, page 61f.