shotë

See also: shote

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *sjāutā, from Proto-Indo-European *sau̯i̯eto, with a metathesis.[1]

Noun

shotë f (plural shotë, definite shotja, definite plural shotet)

  1. big duck
  2. (colloquial) woman from Northern Albania

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shotë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 427
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