noçë
Albanian
editEtymology
editUnclear.[1] Possibly from an older *noshë, continuing Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s, *nh₂es (“nose, nostrils”), with the affricatization of the original final fricative (cf. çaj ~ shaj etc.). Semantically close to Old English nose, nosu (“ness, promontory”), Norwegian nōs (“muzzle, snout”).
Noun
editnoçë f (plural noça, definite noça, definite plural noçat)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “noçë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 300