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Albanian
Etymology
Alteration of dialectal motrë, from Proto-Albanian *mātrā, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂treh₂ (“mother’s sister”), variant of *méh₂truh₂ (compare Old English modrige, Ancient Greek μητρυιά (mētruiá, “stepmother”)), from *méh₂tēr (“mother”).
Noun
motër f (plural motra, definite motra, definite plural motrat)
- sister
Declension
Further reading
- “motër”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “motër”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Newmark, L. (1999) “motër”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary