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Albanian
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Etymology
Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin proximus, with "nearest forest" → "community forest".
Noun
prozhëm m
- small wood, community forest
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Further reading
- Barić, Henrik (1919) Albanorumänishe studien. I. Teil (Zur Kunde der Balkanhalbinsel. Quellen und Forschungen; 7) (in German), Sarajevo: Institut für Balkanforschung, pages 75–76, connects with the family of Serbo-Croatian шу̏ма / šȕma
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “prozhëm”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 404b
- Meyer, G. (1891) “prozhëm”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 355, connects with the family of Serbo-Croatian шу̏ма / šȕma
- Ylli, Xhelal (1997) Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350), volume I. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, pages 215–216, derives from Serbo-Croatian bȓst / бр̑ст