derr

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • derrë [dɛrə] (Tosk)
  • derk [dɛɾk] (archaic) [1]

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *darja (“pig”), from *ǵʰóryos (“pig”) (compare Greek χοίρος (choíros, “id”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr (“hedgehog”), from *ǵʰer- (“to be excited, bristly”) (compare Latin horrere (“to bristle, tremble”)).[2][3]

Perhaps the source of the name of the Illyrian tribe Deuri.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɛr/

Noun

derr m (plural derra)

  1. pig

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References
  1. Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death, by Nancy C. Dorian, 1992.
  2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “derr”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 61
  3. Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Amsterdam: Rodopoi, 1997), 131–2.
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