shtreth

Albanian

Etymology

• Compound of sh- (“de-, dis-, un-”) + dredh (“turn, revolve, twist”).
  • Prefix sh- (“de-, dis-, un-”) from the same root as ith (“behind”), namely Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs.
  • dredh from Proto-Albanian *drē̆δ-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵʰ-. Cognate to Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn, revolve”), Gothic dragan (“to draw, accumulate, take on”), English drag. Related to dridh (“tremble, quake rock, move”), from Proto-Albanian *dreδ-, from Proto-Indo-European *d(h)r- (“to tremble, quake, rock”). Cognate to Lithuanian drebù (“to tremble, quake”).
• A variant of shtreze, from shtroj, related to shtrij.
• According to Orel, from shtrat.

Noun

shtreth m (plural shtrethe, definite shtrethi, definite plural shtrethet)

1. board

Declension

Declension of shtreth

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	shtreth	shtrethe	shtrethi	shtrethet
accusative			shtrethin
dative	shtrethi	shtretheve	shtrethit	shtretheve
ablative		shtrethesh

Related terms

• shtreze