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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Vulgar Latin robur (“oak”). The ending may be either reanalysis as -ull or resonant dissimilation as also in Spanish roble, Sicilian rùvulu. The semantic shift towards “pine” may have been influenced by phonetic similarity with Proto-Slavic *borъ (“pine”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rrobull m (plural rrobuj, definite rrobulli, definite plural rrobujt)
- Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii)
- Synonyms: arti, arne i kuq, murë, pishë mali
- (dialectal) various species of oak (Quercus)
- Synonym: lis
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References
- “rróbu/ll,~lli”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1709b
- Lloshi, Xhevat (2010) “rrobulli”, in Fjalor i emrave të bimëve dhe të kafshëve shqip–latinisht dhe latinisht–shqip (in Albanian), Skopje, Pristina, Tirana: Logos-A, →ISBN, page 290b
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “rróbull”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 440b
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “rrobull”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 388