putërë

Albanian

Etymology

Phonetically matches the expected Tosk outcome of a Vulgar Latin borrowing **pūttāna,[1] whence Italian puttana, but this is contrasted by the fact that the Italian term is likely from Gallo-Romance[2] and that the word survived only in Arbëresh.

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Noun

putërë f (plural putëra, definite putëra, definite plural putërat)

  1. Arbëresh form of putanë (“whore, slut”)

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “putërë ~ putanë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 352
  2. puttana in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Further reading
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 721: “la puttana” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
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