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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κατοῦνα (katoûna, “soldier's tent, tent camp”).[1][2] Orel derives it as compound of ka (“out, from”) and tund (“to shake, dangle”), supposedly a calque of South Slavic *kolyba (“hut”), folk-etymologized from *kolybati (“to shake”);[3] however, Slavic is actually a loan from Ancient Greek καλύβη (kalúbē).
Noun
katund m (plural katunde, definite katundi, definite plural katundet)
- village
Gjithmonë kanë jetuar në katund.- They have always lived in the village.
- (historical) community of herdsmen
- (historical) widely spread-out village
- (Arvanitika) henhouse; disarray
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References
- ^ Demetrios Moutsos, “Middle Greek ϰατοῦνα and Albanian katunt”, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 88, no. 1 (1974): 59–73.
- ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “katund”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 736
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “katund”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 174