mâz
Albanian
Alternative forms
- Tosk: mës, mëz
- Gheg: maz
- plural: mëzenj, mëzër
Etymology
Gheg form of Tosk mëz, from Old Albanian manz (Buzuku), from Proto-Albanian *mandja, from *mand- (“to feed (trans.), suckle”) (modern mënd).[1][2] Close related to Messapic menza (“foal”). Lent Romanian mânz.[1] More at mënd.
Noun
mâz m (indefinite plural mëza, definite singular mëzi, definite plural mëzat)
- foal
- colt
Derived terms
- mëzoj
- mëzak
- mëzat
- mëzator
- mëzatore
- mëzor
- mëzore
- mëze
- mëzuer
References
- Orel, Vladimir (1998), “mâz”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 265
- 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 267