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Albanian
Etymology
Akin to Greek γούβα (goúva), γκούβα (gkoúva, “small pit; depression”), Aromanian guvã (“hole, cavity”), regional Romanian guvă (“nostril”). Other languages may have borrowed the word from Albanian where, given the variant guvër, it is most likely a variant of gavër (“hollow in a tree trunk; hole, cavity”).
Pronunciation
Noun
guvë f (plural guva)
- large pit, cavity; cave, grotto
- Synonyms: shpellë, gërrec
- hollow in a tree trunk
- Synonyms: zgarbë, zgërbonjë, gavër, zgavër, gabrrec
Derived terms
References
- “gúv/ë,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 594a
- γούβα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
- Papahagi, T. (1974) “gúvă”, in Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd edition (overall work in Romanian and French), Bucharest, page 606f.
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “guv-ë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 139b
- Meyer, G. (1891) “guvɛ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 136