mushk

Albanian

Etymology 1

Together with Proto-Slavic *mъskъ (compare Bulgarian мъск (mǎsk), all, presumably, spreading from the South), forming an areal Balkan word for 'mule'.[1] The relationship with Latin mulus and Ancient Greek μυχλός (mukhlós) is unclear. All these terms could have derived from an extinct Mediterranean substrate.

Alternative forms
  • mushkë

Noun

mushk m (plural mushqe, definite mushku, definite plural mushqet)

  1. male mule

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mushk”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 279

Etymology 2

Variant of mushkull, borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin musculus (“muscle”). Compare Romanian mușchi, Aromanian mushclju, cf. also Catalan muscle (“shoulder”). Doublet of muskul, a later learned borrowing.

Noun

mushk m

  1. shoulder
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