përrua

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • Gheg: përrue, përrû (-ni)
  • singular: prroj (-i), prron (-i), prronjë (f.)
  • plural: prrona, përronje, përrenjë

Etymology

A Balkan word. From Proto-Albanian *pVrē/ān-, or Proto-Albanian *per-rāno, possibly a prefixed derivative of rrua. Compare Romanian pârâu (“torrent, stream”), assimilated to râu (“river”).[1] Alternatively, from Old Albanian përruo, from Bulgarian порой (poroj, “torrent”).[2][3]

Noun

përrua m (plural përronj, definite përroi)

  1. torrent, rapid stream
  2. bed of a rapid stream or torrent
  3. (figurative) large quantity of something moving in a rush, torrent, gush

Derived terms

References
  1. Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 318
  2. Stefan Schumacher, "Lehnbeziehung zwischen Protoalbanisch und balkanischem Latein bzw. Romanisch", in Albanische Geschichte: Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung (Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009), 45-8.
  3. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “përrua”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 323
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