Albanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From dialectal harmëshor, from Old Albanian harmëshuar, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *armissārius (compare Romanian armăsar), from Latin admissārius.[1][2]

Noun edit

hamshor m (plural hamshorë, definite hamshori, definite plural hamshorët)

  1. stallion
  2. stud horse

References edit

  1. ^ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary, s.v. “harmëshor” (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 143.
  2. ^ Guillaume Bonnet, Les mots latins de l’albanais (Paris–Montreal: L’Harmattan, 1998), 232, 327.