hurdhë
Albanian
Alternative forms
- urdhë
Etymology
From dialectal urdhë, from Proto-Albanian *urdā, from Proto-Indo-European *uh1r- (“water”). Cognate to Sanskrit वार् (vā́r-, “water”), Old Prussian wurs (“pond, pool”).[1]
Noun
hurdhë f (indefinite plural hurdha, definite singular hurdha, definite plural hurdhat)
- pond
- marsh
- deep pool in a river
- (figuratively) neighborhood, neck of the woods
Synonyms
- hauz
Derived terms
- hurdhatak, hurdhele, hurdhiq
References
- Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 205