shparr
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Albanian *spara, from Proto-Indo-European *sporH- (“spar, rafter”). Cognate to Latin sparus (“short spear”), Old High German sparro (“beam, girder”).[1]
Noun edit
shparr m (plural shparra, definite shparri, definite plural shparrat)
- Alternative form of shpardh
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Amsterdam–Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), 365.