mbratë
Albanian
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editEtymology
editPossibly inherited from Proto-Indo-European *bʰor-eh₂-teh₂,[n 1] from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”), prefixed with n-. Compare a possible close parallel Latin forda (“pregnant cow”).[1]
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editFurther reading
edit- Bardhi, F. (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 105: “praegnans, gravida — mberatesse oò mberat”
- Newmark, L. (1999) “*mbratë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary