Albanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *spūta, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pytew- (to spit).[1] Compare Latin spuere, Greek πτύω (ptýo), Lithuanian spiáuti.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fyt m (plural fyte, definite fyti, definite plural fytet)

  1. throat

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References

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  1. ^ Guus Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 468.
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fyt”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 107