lungë

See also: lunge and Lunge

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lunkā, from Proto-Indo-European *leu-k (“to bend”). Compare Old Prussian lunkis (“angle”), Lithuanian luñkanas (“supple”), Latvian llùnks (“id”)[1].

Noun

lungë f (indefinite plural lunga, definite singular lunga, definite plural lungat)

  1. blister, bulge

References

  1. ↑ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “lungë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 235
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