vangë
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AlbanianEdit
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EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Albanian *uang-, from Proto-Indo-European *wen(H)g- (“to be bent, curved”). Cognate with Lithuanian vìngis (“bow, crooking”), Old High German wankōn (“to shake, totter, stagger”).[1]
NounEdit
vangë m (indefinite plural vangë, definite singular vangu, definite plural vangët)
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien (Amsterdam: Rodopoi, 1997),p.408