purtekë
Albanian
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editEtymology
editMetathesis of dialectal prutekë, from South Slavic; cf. Bulgarian прътак (prǎtak), прътец (prǎtec), Serbo-Croatian prutak.[1][2]
Noun
editpurtekë f (plural purteka, definite purteka, definite plural purtekat)
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editReferences
edit- ^ Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Århus: Aarhus University Press, 1992), 121–2.
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “purtekë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 351