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Albanian
Etymology
From Macedonian додола (dodola, “rainmaker”) + -ec; variants blended with дожд (dožd, “rain”) and добар (dobar, “good, kind”).[1][2]
Noun
dordolec m (plural dordolecë, definite dordoleci, definite plural dordolecët)
- scarecrow
- (ethnology) boy wearing fern and hellebore leaves and sprinkled with water in a ceremony to attract rain
- (figurative) laughing stock
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References
- ^ Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Åarhus: Aarhus UP, 1992), 214.
- ^ Ylli, Xhelal (1997) Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350), volume I. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 65.