voc

See also: VOC, vóc, vọc, voc., and Voc.

Albanian

Etymology

Likely akin to vógël (“small, young”).[1] By some identified as the source of Ancient Greek βάδιος (bádios, “child”).[2]

Noun

vóc m (plural vóca, definite vóci, definite plural vócat); feminine equivalent vóce

  1. (regional) young boy, child
    Synonym: çún

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “voc”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 513
  2. Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016) “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor‎, pages 40–41

Further reading
  • “voc”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “voc”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary
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