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Albanian
Etymology
A variant of kurm (cf. dëllinjë vs. dullinjë, mëllenjë vs. mullenjë etc.).
Others have proposed a South Slavic origin; compare Serbo-Croatian kŕma (“forage, fodder”), Bulgarian кърма (kǎrma, “forage, fodder; carrion”).
Noun
kërmë f (plural kërma, definite kërma, definite plural kërmat)
- carrion
- (colloquial) carcass
- (derogatory) walking corpse
Synonyms
References
- ^ Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Åarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1992), 132.
- ^ Xhelal Ylli, Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen, vol. 1: Lehnwörter (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1997), 113.