mendis
Albanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مهندس (mühendis), contaminated with mendje (“mind”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -is
Noun edit
mendis m (dialectal or archaic)
- engineer, master builder
- Synonym: inxhinier
References edit
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “mendís”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 276b
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*myhendis”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 322
Esperanto edit
Verb edit
mendis
- past of mendi
Latin edit
Noun edit
mendīs