Kristoforidhi and Çabej descend it from South Slavic.[1] Alternatively from Turkish vidalı (“threaded, screwed”).[2]
vërdallë
- around and around
i vjen vërdallë- to go at it by a circuitous route, approach the matter indirectly; speak indirectly
vërdallë f (plural vërdallë)
- whirlwind
- Synonym: vorbull
- (figuratively) confused mess
- ^ Çabej, E. (1986) Studime gjuhësore (in Albanian), Prishtinë: Rilindja
- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “viδε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 472
- “vërdallë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- Newmark, L. (1999) “vërdallë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[2]
