purtekë

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Albanian

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Etymology

Metathesis of dialectal prutekë, from South Slavic; cf. Bulgarian прътак (prǎtak), прътец (prǎtec), Serbo-Croatian prutak, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *prǫtъ.[1][2]

Noun

purtekë f (plural purteka, definite purteka, definite plural purtekat)

  1. withe, switch
  2. rod, bar
  3. (regional) knitting needle
  4. (colloquial) beating with a stick

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References

  1. ^ Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Århus: Aarhus University Press, 1992), 121–2.
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “purtekë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 351
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