Albanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin proximus, with "nearest forest" → "community forest".[1]

Noun edit

prozhëm m

  1. small wood, community forest

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “prozhëm”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 347

Further reading edit

  • Barić, Henrik (1919) Albanorumänishe studien. I. Teil (Zur Kunde der Balkanhalbinsel. Quellen und Forschungen; 7) (in German), Sarajevo: Institut für Balkanforschung, pages 75–76, connects with the family of Serbo-Croatian шу̏ма / šȕma
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “prozhëm”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 404b
  • Meyer, G. (1891) “prozhëm”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 355, connects with the family of Serbo-Croatian шу̏ма / šȕma
  • Ylli, Xhelal (1997) Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350)‎[1], volume I. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, pages 215–216, derives from Serbo-Croatian bȓst / бр̑ст