vath
See also: Vath
Albanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Variant of vëth／vâth, from vëng／vang (“rim, hoop, ring”) + -th.[1] By some identified as the source of Ancient Greek ἀάνθα (aántha, “earring”).[2]
Noun edit
vath m (plural vathë, definite vathi, definite plural vathët)
Declension edit
Declension of vath
References edit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “vath”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016) “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor[1], page 40
Further reading edit
- “vath”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse váði (“danger”).
Noun edit
vath (plural vaths)
- Alternative form of wothe.
- 1909, John Barbour, The Bruce, Volume 1[2], digitized edition, Adam and Charlie Black, published 2010, page 124:
- With few menyhe mycht soyn thame scath, / And yhet eschape withouten vath.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References edit
- A Concise Dictionary of Middle English, vath