trevë
See also: trêve
Albanian
editEtymology
editPokorny (1959) attributed it to Proto-Indo-European *treb-, *trē̆b, *trōb (“building, dwelling”) (cf. Latin trabs (“balk, beam”), Welsh tref (“dwelling”), Lithuanian trobà (“house, edifice, building”), Old English ðorp.[1]
Orel[2] and Çabej[3] attributed it to Middle Greek τρέβα "truce", itself from treve (also Old French trieve, whence French trêve), from Frankish *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (“fidelity; pledge”).
Noun
edittrevë f (plural treva, definite treva, definite plural trevat)
Declension
editDeclension of trevë
Derived terms
editReferences
editFurther reading
edit- “trevë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- “trevë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “trevë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 524