shparr

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spara, from Proto-Indo-European *sporH- (“spar, rafter”). Cognate to Latin sparus (“short spear”), Old High German sparro (“beam, girder”).[1]

Noun

shparr m (plural shparra, definite shparri, definite plural shparrat)

  1. Alternative form of shpardh

Derived terms

References
  1. Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Amsterdam–Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), 365.
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