zgrip

Albanian

Etymology

A prefixed formation based on Proto-Albanian *gripa, cognate to Old High German krapfo (“hook”) and Old Norse krappr (“narrow”).[1] Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *grep- (“hook”), from *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”), same root as grep (“hook”).

Noun

zgrip m (plural zgripe, definite zgripi, definite plural zgripet)

  1. side, edge, rim

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “zgrip”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 523
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