hirrë
Albanian
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly:
- from Proto-Albanian *ksirā, cognate with Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšiHrám (“milk”),[1] perhaps:
- both borrowed from an Asiatic substrate language,[2]
- or further connected to Proto-West Germanic *hwaij (“whey”), from Proto-Indo-European *tkʷeyH-, *tkʷeHy-,[3][4]
- from Proto-Albanian *skirā, cognate with:
- Old Norse skyr (“thick curdled milk”),[5] possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”),[6]
- Lithuanian kartùs (“bitter”),[7] Old Prussian kārtai (“bitter”), ultimately of unknown origin,
- or Mantuan Lombard scaron (“whey”), perhaps ultimately borrowed from Messapic *skar- (“whey”),[8]
- or possibly borrowed from Ancient Greek ὁρός (horós, “whey”),[9] cognate with Latin serum (“whey”), Sanskrit सार (sā́ra, “curd, cream”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to flow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hi.rə/
Noun
hirrë f (definite hirra)
Derived terms
- hirraq
- hirrët
- hirrzë
References
- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1895), “Das indogermanische sim Slawischen”, in Indogermanische Forschungen (in German), volume 5, page 45
- ^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 262
- ^ Rasmussen, J.E. (1990), “Germanic Verscharfung: tying up loose ends”, in Historical Linguistics 1987: papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, 1987
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*hwaja- ~ *huja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 261-262
- ^ Lidén, Evald (1934), “Zur indogermanischen Terminologie der Milchwirtschaft”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der Indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume 61, pages 9-10
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 940
- ^ Barić, Henrik (1919), Albanorumänishe studien. I. Teil (Zur Kunde der Balkanhalbinsel. Quellen und Forschungen; 7) (in German), Sarajevo: Institut für Balkanforschung, page 28
- ^ Johannes, Hubschmid (1958), “Pyrenäenwörter vorromanischen Ursprungs und das vorromanische Substrat der Alpen”, in Acta Salmanticensia (in German), volume 7, number 2, page 49
- ^ Camarda, Demetrio (1864), Saggio di Grammatologia comparata sulla Lingua albanese (in Italian), Livorno, page 47
Further reading
- Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997), “hírr/ë,-a”, in Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[2] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, pages 202-203
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “hirrë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 149
- Erat, Janez (2008), “hirrë”, in Etimološki slovar albanskega jezika [Albanian Etymological Dictionary][3] (in Slovene), 2 edition, page 59