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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شیخ (şeyh, “head of a religious order”),[1][2][3][4][5] through a monophthongised dialectal variant.[n 1][5]
Noun
sheh m (plural shehlerë or (archaic) sheha)
- head of a Muslim religious group. sheik
Derived terms
Notes
- ^ Attested as scech in an Italian-Turkish glossary from 1533 and as seh in a Latin-Turkish glossary from Hungary from 1672.[6]
References
- ^ Jungg, G. (1895) “sceh”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 126
- ^ Mann, S. E. (1948) “sheh”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 470
- ^ Boretzky, N. (1976) Wörterbuch der albanischen Turzismen (Der türkische Einfluss auf das Albanische; 2) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 123
- ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “sheh”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1374
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “sheh”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 445
- ^ Rocchi, L. (2007) “şeh”, in Ricerche sulla lingua osmanlı del XVI secolo. Il corpus lessicale turco del manoscritto fiorentino di Filippo Argenti (1533) (in Italian), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 229
Further reading
- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language], 1980, page 1822
Manx
Etymology
From Middle Irish seiche, from Proto-Celtic *sekess, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) (compare Icelandic sigg (“callus, hard skin”)).[1] Compare Scottish Gaelic seiche and Irish seithe.
Pronunciation
Noun
sheh f (genitive singular sheh, plural shehghyn)
- fur, hide, pelt, skin
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References