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Albanian
Etymology
Pokorny (1959) attributed it to Proto-Indo-European *treb-, *trē̆b, *trōb (“building, dwelling”) (cf. Latin trabs (“balk, beam”), Welsh tref (“dwelling”), Lithuanian trobà (“house, edifice, building”), Old English ðorp.[1]
Orel[2] and Çabej[3] attributed it to Middle Greek τρέβα "truce", itself from treve (also Old French trieve, whence French trêve), from Frankish *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (“fidelity; pledge”).
Noun
trevë f (plural treva, definite treva, definite plural trevat)
- region, province, territory
- Synonyms: krahinë, tokë, truall, vend
- pasture, meadow
- Synonyms: luadh, lëndinë, fushë
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, J. Pokorny, 1959, Bern : Francke, pp.1090
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “trevë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 464
- ^ Çabej, Eqrem. 1986. Studime gjuhësore I-VIII. Prishtinë: Rilindja. Page 194
Further reading
- “trevë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “trevë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “trevë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 524