shkurte

Albanian

Etymology

From shkurt +‎ -e feminine marker. According to Orel, probably from a Germanic language and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skurta, *skurti, also in Old Norse skyrta, Middle Low German schorte (“shirt”). From the same source of shkurt.[1]

Noun

shkurte f (plural shkurte, definite shkurtja, definite plural shkurtet)

  1. kind of shirt

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shkurte”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 425
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.