lorzë

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unclear. Used in a phrase flas si lorza (“to chat like a parrot”). A suffixal diminutive of an unattested *lori (“parrot lori, one of the subfamily Lorinae, now usually tribe Loriini”).[1]

Noun

lorzë f (plural lorzë, definite lorza, definite plural lorzat)

  1. parrot
    Synonym: papagall

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lorzë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 231

Further reading

  • “lorëz”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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