vatër

See also: Vater, vàter, and Väter

Albanian

Alternative forms

• (Gheg) votër

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *ōtar, borrowed from Sarmato-(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Alanic, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Iranian *ātr-, *ātar- (“fire”); it derives ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₁ter- (“fire”), whence also Latin āter (“black”). See also Romanian vatră and Serbo-Croatian vatra, which were probably borrowed from it.

Noun

vatër f (plural vatra, definite vatra)

1. fireplace, fireside, hearth
2. (figurative) home, family circle
3. small plot of ground
4. (geometry) focal point
5. (anatomy) nerve center
6. (medicine) focus, hotbed

Hyponyms

• vatër kulture (“community center”)
• vatër malarje (“hotbed of malaria”)
• vatër moçalizimi (“swampy plot of land”)

Idioms

• në krye të vatrës (“in the place of honor”)

References

• Domosileckaja, M. V. (2002) Albansko-vostočnoromanskij sopostavitelʹnyj ponjatijnyj slovarʹ: Skotovodčeskaja leksika [Albanian – Eastern Romance Comparative Conceptual Dictionary: The Pastoral Vocabulary] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nauka, →ISBN, page 457
• Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “vatër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 495–496