fuqi

See also: fúqi, fúqì, and fūqī

Albanian edit

Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Albanian: *spukja,^[1] either cognate with Latvian spèks (“strength”),^[2] from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to succeed, prosper”) or Ancient Greek φῦσα (phûsa, “breath; bellows”), Old Armenian փուք (pʻukʻ, “breath”), Lithuanian pùsti (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pew- (“to inflate”).^[1] Alternatively, from *fujqi,^[3] borrowed from Vulgar Latin *fulcius, from Latin fulcīō (“to prop up; to support; to make strong”),^[4]

fuqi f (plural fuqi, definite fuqia, definite plural fuqitë)

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Declension of fuqi

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Karl Treimer (1938) “Der f-Laut im Albanischen”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der Indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume 65, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →JSTOR, pages 106-107
^ Barić, Henrik (1919) Albanorumänishe studien. I. Teil (Zur Kunde der Balkanhalbinsel. Quellen und Forschungen; 7) (in German), Sarajevo: Institut für Balkanforschung, page 25: “*sp(h)uk⁽^u̯⁾o”
^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fuqi”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 106
^ Meyer, G. (1891) “fuḱt”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 114: “fuĺḱí”