urdhë

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

  1. urdhë (“return, answer”):
    from udhë (“way, road”), from Proto-Albanian *uj́ā-, from Proto-Indo-European *uǵʰ-ah₂- < *weǵʰ- (“to move, walk”).[1] Cognate to Latin vehō, via, Old English weġ. Connected to erdha.[2] Close to Greek έρχομαι (érchomai, “come”), aorist ήρθα (írtha, “I came”), Middle Irish eirgg (“go!”), German ragen (“to rise”)[3]
  1. urdhë (“(sort of) white cheese”):
    Alternative variant of hurdhë. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *wurdā, from an earlier *urdā or *uordā, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *uer- (“to boil, to burn”). Cognate to Old Armenian վառիմ (vaṙim, “to burn”), Lithuanian vìrti (“to cook, to boil”).[4] Compare also Romanian urdă.

Noun

  • urdhë f
  1. return
  2. answer

(Tosk)

  • Child: Nënë! - Mother!
    • Mother: Urdhëro! - Return! (Imperative, mother expects child to answer/speak further)

(Gheg)

  • Child: Nân(ë)! - Mother!
    • Mother: Urdh(ë)no! - Return! (Imperative, mother expects child to answer/speak further)


  1. sort of white cheese

References

  1. ^ Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 239.
  2. ^ Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 266.
  3. ^ Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 300.
  4. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “urdhë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 487-8
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