eshke

Albanian

Etymology

Singularized plural of an earlier *eshkë, from Proto-Albanian *aiškā, from Proto-Indo-European *oid-skā- (compare Old Church Slavonic исто (isto, “kidney”), Old Norse eista (“testicle”)), from *h₂eyd- (“to swell”), whence Ancient Greek οἰδέω (oidéō).[1].

Noun

eshke f (indefinite plural eshke, definite singular eshka, definite plural eshkat)

  1. kidney

References

  1. ↑ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “eshke”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 90
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