thënukël

Albanian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly:

  1. A variant of thanukël (“common dogwood”), from thanë (“cornel cherry”) +‎ -ukël (diminutive suffix).[1]
  2. From *thanulk-, from thanë (“cornel cherry”) +‎ ulk (“wolf”).
  3. From Proto-Albanian *tsunu-abōla, akin to Lithuanian šunobelė (“buckthorn”) and Dacian κινούβοιλα (kinoúboila, “bryony”) (see there for more), from a Proto-Indo-European compound of *ḱwṓ, *ḱun- (“dog”) and *h₂ébōl (“apple”), with an unexpected change of /-b-/ to /-k-/.[2] If so, this term would preserve both the original PIE words for “dog”, and “apple”, which were replaced by qen and mollë respectively.

Noun

thënukël f (plural thënukla, definite thënukla, definite plural thënuklat)

  1. dogberry

Declension
Declension of thënukël
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative thënukël thënukla thënukla thënuklat
accusative thënuklën
dative thënukle thënuklave thënuklës thënuklave
ablative thënuklash

References
  1. Demiraj, B. (1997) “thánë/-a (t.)/thãnë”, in Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 393
  2. Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 177
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