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Albanian
Etymology
Likely akin to vógël (“small, young”).[1] By some identified as the source of Ancient Greek βάδιος (bádios, “child”).[2]
Noun
vóc m (plural vóca, definite vóci, definite plural vócat); feminine equivalent vóce
- (regional) young boy, child
- Synonym: çún
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “voc”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 513
- ^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016) “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor, pages 40–41
Further reading
- “voc”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- Newmark, L. (1999) “voc”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary