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Albanian
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly:
- A variant of thanukël (“common dogwood”), from thanë (“cornel cherry”) + -ukël (diminutive suffix).[1]
- From *thanulk-, from thanë (“cornel cherry”) + ulk (“wolf”).
- From Proto-Albanian *tsunu-abōla, akin to Lithuanian šunobelė (“buckthorn”) and Dacian κινούβοιλα (kinoúboila, “bryony”) (see there for more), from a Proto-Indo-European compound of *ḱwṓ, *ḱun- (“dog”) and *h₂ébōl (“apple”), with an unexpected change of /-b-/ to /-k-/.[2] If so, this term would preserve both the original PIE words for “dog”, and “apple”, which were replaced by qen and mollë respectively.
Noun
thënukël f (plural thënukla, definite thënukla, definite plural thënuklat)
- dogberry
Declension
References
- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) “thánë/-a (t.)/thãnë”, in Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: ] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 393
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 177