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Albanian
Etymology
In view of its meaning and the variant greth "flax-combings", likely from a diminutive *grabth of Proto-Albanian *graba, an o-grade noun related to kreh.[1]
Alternatively, with voicing of initial, from krath (“leaf bud, sprout on a tree”), variant of kranth ~ krëndth, diminutive of krand ~ krënd (“brushwood; tinder”).[2]
Finally, Çabej derives it from *granth, diminutive in -th from South Slavic (cf. Serbo-Croatian grana (“branch; brushwood”), Macedonian гранка (granka), dialectal Bulgarian гран (gran)).[3]
Noun
grath m (plural grathë, definite grathi)
- jagged tooth (of a cog, etc.)
- saw tooth
- bristle, hard sliver
- flax straw, flax stem
- flax hards
Derived terms
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “grath”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 122
- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 225
- ^ Eqrem Çabej, Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes, vol. V.
Middle English
Noun
grath
- Alternative form of garth