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Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *ðámba-, from Pre-Proto-Albanian *j́amba-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth, peg”) (compare English comb, Greek γομφίος (gomfíos, “molar”), Serbo-Croatian zȗb (“tooth”)).[2][3]
Noun
dhëmb m (plural dhëmbë, definite dhëmbi, definite plural dhëmbët)
- tooth
Declension
References
- ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 26, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “dhëmb”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 82
- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi