hundë
See also: hunde, Hunde, and Hünde
Albanian
Etymology
Originally ‘snout’, from Proto-Albanian *skuntā, from *skuna ‘stake, pole’ (modern hu), close to Germanic *skuna, *skunō (compare Faroese skon, Norwegian skut (“projection, overhang”)).[1][2] More at hu.
Noun
hundë f (indefinite plural hundë, definite singular hunda, definite plural hundët)
- nose
- tapered protrusion; ship's prow, promontory
- (colloquial) spout
- (geography) cape, promontory, point
Derived terms
derivatives
- hundaç
- hundak
- hundarak
- hundç
- hunde
- hundec
- hundës
- hundëz
- hundohem
- hundor
- hundroj
Related terms
- hu
References
- Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 152.
- Adam Hyllested, “Albanian hundë ‘nose’ and Faroese, SW Norwegian skon ‘snout’”, in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (Bremen: Hempen, 2012), 73-81.