guvë

Albanian

Alternative forms

guvër — dialectal

Etymology

Akin to Greek γούβα (goúva), γκούβα (gkoúva, “small pit; depression”), Aromanian guvã (“hole, cavity”), regional Romanian guvă (“nostril”). Other languages may have borrowed the word from Albanian where, given the variant guvër, it is most likely a variant of gavër (“hollow in a tree trunk; hole, cavity”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡuvə/
Rhymes: -uvə

Noun

guvë f (plural guva)

large pit, cavity; cave, grotto
Synonyms: shpellë, gërrec
hollow in a tree trunk
Synonyms: zgarbë, zgërbonjë, gavër, zgavër, gabrrec

Derived terms

References

“gúv/ë,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 594a
γούβα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
Papahagi, T. (1974) “gúvă”, in Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd edition (overall work in Romanian and French), Bucharest, page 606f.
Mann, S. E. (1948) “guv-ë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 139b
Meyer, G. (1891) “guvɛ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 136