esh

See also: Esh, ESH, and -esh

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Noun

esh (plural eshes)

  1. The IPA symbol ʃ.
  2. The letter Ʃ/ʃ, used by some African languages.

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From South Slavic; cf. Macedonian еж (ež), Serbo-Croatian је̑ж (jȇž).[1][2] Alternatively, variant eshk would be more conservative, from Proto-Albanian *etska, with devoicing from *edz-k-a, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰis; cognate with Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos), Macedonian еж (ež), German Igel, Lithuanian ežỹs.[3]

Noun

esh m (plural eshë, definite eshi, definite plural eshët)

  1. (regional) hedgehog
  2. (regional, figurative) look-alike, doppelgänger

Declension
Declension of esh
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative esh eshë eshi eshët
accusative eshin
dative eshi eshëve eshit eshëvet
ablative eshësh

Synonyms

References
  1. Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Åarhus: Aarhus UP, 1992), 142.
  2. Ylli, Xhelal (1997) Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350)‎, volume I. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 72
  3. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “esh”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 90
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