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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian alfiere.
Noun
alfier m (archaic, hapax)
- flag-bearer, standard-bearer
- Synonyms: flamurtar, bajraktar
References
- Bardhi, Frang (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 183: “vexillarius — alfier, bairachtaar”
- Miklosich, Franz (1871) “alfiere it”, in Albanische Forschungen II. Die romanischen Elemente im Albanischen (in German), Vienna: Karl Gerold’s Sohn, page 2
- Meyer, G. (1891) “ałfjér”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 8
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “alfjer”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 4b
- Dashi, B. (2013) “alfiere”, in Italianismi nella lingua albanese (in Italian), Edizioni Nuova Cultura, →ISBN, page 61