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Albanian
Etymology
From Byzantine Greek στέριφος (stériphos), which also gave Romanian sterp, Venetian sterpo, Friulian sterpe, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *exstirpus, from Latin exstirpo (“I root out”).[1][2]
Adjective
shterp
- barren, infertile
References
- ^ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 437.
- ^ Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Amsterdam–Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), 373.