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Albanian
Etymology
From older and dialectal glisht, from Proto-Albanian *glista, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to sting”) (compare German Kiel (“quill”), Lithuanian gãlas (“end, tip”), Greek βελόνα (velóna, “needle”)).
Noun
gisht m (plural gishta, definite gishti, definite plural gishtat)
- finger
- (technical) pawl (for a ratchet wheel)
- (colloquial) fingerwidth, small amount
Declension
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