avdos

      Albanian

      Alternative forms

      • avdosë, avdosk, avdoskë

      Etymology

      Dialectal; masculine variant of avdosë, compound of *av(ë) ‘bird’ + dosë ‘sow’, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis; related to afçë.

      Noun

      avdos m (indefinite plural avdosa)

      1. chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

      Synonyms

      Last modified on 4 January 2013, at 00:00