grellë

See also: grelle and grèlle

Albanian

Etymology

Suggested to be from Proto-Albanian *gritlā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥h₃-tló-m, from *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow, eat”),[1] however this is semantically dubious.

Noun

grellë f

  1. deep place

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “grellë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 122: “IE *gu̯r̥tlom”
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