mushk
Albanian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Together with Proto-Slavic *mъskъ (compare Bulgarian мъск (mǎsk), all, presumably, spreading from the South), forming an areal Balkan word for 'mule'.[1] The relationship with Latin mulus and Ancient Greek μυχλός (mukhlós) is unclear. All these terms could have derived from an extinct Mediterranean substrate.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
mushk m (plural mushqe, definite mushku, definite plural mushqet)
References edit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mushk”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 279
Etymology 2 edit
Variant of mushkull, borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin musculus (“muscle”). Compare Romanian mușchi, Aromanian mushclju, cf. also Catalan muscle (“shoulder”). Doublet of muskul, a later learned borrowing.
Noun edit
mushk m