kremte

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • krëmte — Tosk (historical)
  • e kremte — Standard

Etymology

Etymology unclear.[1] The linking particle suggests common development with the names for weekdays, compare e premte (“Friday”). It could be a suffixed form of krye (“head; beginning”)[2] or, according to Topalli, inherited from Proto-Indo-European *kerm- (“to sleep, to rest”); compare Old High German hirmen (“to rest, to pause”) and Lithuanian kirmiti (“to sleep”).[3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾɛmtɛ/

Noun

kremte f (plural kremte, definite kremtja, definite plural kremtet)

  1. holiday (especially religious)
    Synonyms: festë, kremtim

Declension
Declension of kremte
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative kremte kremte kremtja kremtet
accusative kremten
dative kremteje kremteve kremtes kremteve
ablative kremtesh

Derived terms
  • kremtoj
    • kremtim

References
  1. Matzinger, Joachim (2006) Der Altalbanische Text Mbsuame e Krështerë (Dottrina Cristiana) des Lekë Matrënga von 1592, Dettelbach: J. H. Röll, page 225
  2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kremte”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 195
  3. Topalli, K. (2017) “kremte”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, pages 812-813

German

Verb

kremte

  1. inflection of kremen:
    1. first/third-person singular preterite
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive II

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse krimta (onomatopoietic).

Verb

kremte (present tense kremter, past tense kremta or kremtet, past participle kremta or kremtet)

  1. (onomatopoeia) clear one's throat

Derived terms
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