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Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *duaigā, from Proto-Indo-European *dwoy-, from the root *dwi- (“binary, consisting of two”). Cognate to Old High German zwig (“forking, crotch (of tree); bough, branch”).[1] Alternatively from a root *deh₃gʰ- shared with Proto-Germanic *tōgô (“branch”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
degë f
- forking, crotch (of tree), bough, branch
Coordinate terms
References
- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: ] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 125
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*tōgan- ~ *takkan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 519