flojere

flojere

Albanian

Alternative forms

• flojerë, floerë

Etymology

Borrowed from Aromanian fluiarã, fluearã,[1] from Latin flātūrālis (“blowing”, adj.), from flātūra (“act of blowing”).[2]

Noun

flojere f (definite singular flojerja)

1. (dialectal) flute

Synonyms

• fyell

Descendants

• → Greek: φλογέρα (flogéra)

References

1. Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), 172.
2. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 100.