bredh

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • brec, breth

Etymology 1

Plural of earlier *bardh, with metathesis from Proto-Albanian *brada, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrodʰos ‘ford’ (compare Polish bród, Lithuanian brãdas), deverbative of *bʰredʰe/o ‘to wade’.[1] See below.
Alternatively, with metathesis from Proto-Albanian *berdza, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérh₁ǵos ‘birch’; cognate with Lithuanian béržas, Czech bříza, Ossetian бӕрз (bærz), English birch. Lent Romanian brad (fir).

Noun

bredh m (indefinite plural bredha, definite singular bredhi, definite plural bredhat)

  1. fir
Derived terms
  • bredhishtë, bredhtë, breshtë
  • brethk, brethkël

References

  1. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 34.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *bredza, from earlier *breda, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰredʰe/o ‘to wade’ (compare Slovene brédem (I wade), Lithuanian breñda (he wades)).

Verb

bredh (first-person singular past tense brodha, participle bredhur)

  1. to wander
  2. to jump, spring

Conjugation

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