Bardhyl

Albanian
Bardhyli I ― Bardylis I

Alternative forms
  • Bardhyll
  • Bardhil, Bardhill — dialectal
  • Bardhul, Bardhull — dialectal

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Βάρδυλις (Bárdulis), Βάρδυλλις (Bárdullis), the name of an Illyrian king attested in Ancient Greek sources. The name is widely reinterpreted as bardhë +‎ yll, literally “white star”, and although connection with bardhë (“white”) is indeed widely endorsed,[1][2] similarity with yll (“star”) is most probably coincidental. See Βάρδυλις (Bárdulis) for further information.

Proper noun

Bardhyl m (definite Bardhyli)

  1. a male given name from Illyrian

Declension
Declension of Bardhyl
indefinite definite
nominative Bardhyl Bardhyli
accusative Bardhylin
dat./abl. Bardhyli Bardhylit

References
  1. Demiraj, B. (1997) “bárdhë”, in Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 90
  2. Alexandru Rosetti (1973) Brève histoire de la langue roumaine des origines à nos jours (in French), →DOI, page 52

Further reading
  • Bardhyl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Dražić, Marina, Antić, Ivana, editors (2019), Каталог најчешћих албанских имена и презимена‎ (in Serbo-Croatian), page 14a
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