thupër
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Albanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Albanian *upera (“upper”), etymologically related to Old High German obar and Latin super.[1] Alternatively a variant of shufër.[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
thupër f (plural thupra, definite thupra, definite plural thuprat)
- twig, rod
- 1635, Pjetër Bogdani, Cuneus Prophetarum, scala 2, Capitolo 2:
- Gen. 8. Parrijssi goditete. Mojsessi sctihetè ndè spoortè ξξuprasc
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1635, Pjetër Bogdani, Cuneus Prophetarum, scala 2, Discorso 3:
- e ti kè me folè me mue, ξξuperè ende merrè ndorè tandè, me tè sijet ke me bam scègnietè;
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- bow (for a stringend instrument)
Declension[edit]
Declension of thupër
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “thupër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 481–482
- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “θuprε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, , page 92
Further reading[edit]
- Bardhi, F. (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 181: “verber — Scop, ξupre, mhʃcicheie”
- Jungg, G. (1895) “ξξuper”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 164