kurriz
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
From *kurr and suffix -iz, from Proto-Albanian *kurna, from Proto-Indo-European *k(ʷ)or(H)- (compare Latvian cęrs (“stump, knotty root”), Serbo-Croatian kȍrijen (“root”)). By analogy of a root (taproot) with the spine.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kurriz m (plural kurrize, definite kurrizi, definite plural kurrizet)
- (anatomy) back; spine
- Synonym: shpinë
- something similar to a back, behind something
- (figurative) self
- Synonym: vetë
Declension edit
Declension of kurriz
References edit
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kurriz”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 207