degë

See also: dege

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *duaigā, from Proto-Indo-European *dwoy-, from the root *dwi- (“binary, consisting of two”). Cognate to Old High German zwig (“forking, crotch (of tree); bough, branch”).[1] Alternatively from a root *deh₃gʰ- shared with Proto-Germanic *tōgô (“branch”).[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɛ.ɡə/

Noun

degë f

  1. forking, crotch (of tree), bough, branch

Coordinate terms

References
  1. Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 125
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*tōgan- ~ *takkan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 519
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