shqa
Albanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin sclavus or Sclavus, from Byzantine Greek σκλάβος (sklábos, “Slav”) or Σκλάβος (Sklábos).[1] Compare Romanian șcheau (“Bulgarian, (South) Slav”), șchiau, Aromanian shcljau. Doublet of skllav (“slave”), a later borrowing.
Noun edit
shqa m (plural shqa, definite shqau, definite plural shqetë)
- a Bulgarian (or generally any person of South Slavic ethnicity)
References edit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shqa”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 432