fshat

Albanian

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek φοσσᾶτον (phossâton), φουσσᾶτον (phoussâton, “encampment”), from Late Latin fossātum (“entrenchment, place enclosed by a ditch”).[1][2] According to Barić, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-sed- (“sitting around”), and according to Balota in RHSEU, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-sek-ti- (“tilled around”).[2]

Noun

fshat m (plural fshatra, definite fshati, definite plural fshatrat)

  1. village, especially (politics) as a unit of local government in Albania
  2. rural area, countryside

Declension
Declension of fshat
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative fshat fshatra fshati fshatrat
accusative fshatin
dative fshati fshatrave fshatit fshatravet
ablative fshatrash

Coordinate terms

Descendants
  • → Romanian: sat, fsat

References
  1. Guillaume Bonnet, Les mots latins de l’albanais (Paris–Montreal: L’Harmattan, 1998), 369
  2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fshat”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 104
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