veshkë

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Albanian

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Etymology

Altered with v- from veshje of variant eshkë, from Proto-Albanian *aiškā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oyd-sk-eh₂ (compare Old Church Slavonic исто (isto, “kidney”), Old Norse eista (“testicle”)), from *h₂eyd- (“to swell”), whence Ancient Greek οἰδέω (oidéō).[1]

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Noun

veshkë f (plural veshka, definite veshka, definite plural veshkat)

  1. kidney

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References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “eshke”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 90
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