katund

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • katûn(d) (Gheg), kotun (South Gheg, Arbanasi)

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κατοῦνα (katoûna, “soldier's tent, tent camp”).[1][2] Orel derives it as compound of ka (“out, from”) and tund (“to shake, dangle”), supposedly a calque of South Slavic *kolyba (“hut”), folk-etymologized from *kolybati (“to shake”);[3] however, Slavic is actually a loan from Ancient Greek καλύβη (kalúbē).

Noun

katund m (plural katunde, definite katundi, definite plural katundet)

  1. village
    Gjithmonë kanë jetuar në katund.
    They have always lived in the village.
  2. (historical) community of herdsmen
  3. (historical) widely spread-out village
  4. (Arvanitika) henhouse; disarray

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • katundar
  • katundari
  • katundës
  • katundisht

References
  1. Demetrios Moutsos, “Middle Greek ϰατοῦνα and Albanian katunt”, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 88, no. 1 (1974): 59–73.
  2. Topalli, K. (2017) “katund”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 736
  3. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “katund”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 174
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