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Albanian
Etymology 1
See Albanian marr (“to take”).
Verb
márrtë (aorist móra, participle márrë)
- third-person singular active present optative of marr (may take)
- Të marrtë dreqi! ― May the devil take you! (To hell with you!)
Etymology 2
Cognate to Albanian marrë; both from Proto-Albanian *marsa (from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”); Proto-Indo-European *h₂mergʷ- (“dark”)).
Cognate to Proto-Slavic *morkъ (“darkness”), *morxъ (“dusk, fog”), Proto-Slavic *mergъ (“brown”), Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, “dark”), Lithuanian márgas (“colorful”).
Also related to Albanian murg (“dark”), murgët (also derived from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”)).
Adjective
i marrtë
- twilight, dim; weak (light)
- Synonyms: errët, dobët
- blurred, dizzy (vision)
- Synonyms: paqartë, turbullt, murgët
- opaque, turbid, muddy (glass)
- Synonyms: errët, patejdukshëm, padepërtueshëm
- leprous
- Synonym: lëbyrtë
Related terms
Further reading
- adjective márrtë/marrtë (engl. dim, murky, etc.) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “marrtë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 246
- ^ Oda Buchholz, Wilfried Fiedler, Gerda Uhlisch (2000) Langenscheidt Handwörterbuch Albanisch, Langenscheidt Verlag, →ISBN, page 302 (márrtë Adj (murky, dim, etc.))