djalë

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *dela, from *dʰeh₁-l-os, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-l- (compare Latvian dêls (“son”), Latin filius (“son”), Old English delu (“teat”), Old Armenian դալ (dal)), from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Originally a neuter noun, as it appears in Buzuku's Meshari.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /(ˈ)djal(ə)/

Noun

djalë m (plural djem, definite djali, definite plural djemtë)

  1. boy
    Vëllai i saj është një djalë shumë joshës.
    Her brother is a very charming guy.
    • 2011, Liria Dedvukaj, S'më Meriton, Max Production:
      Me ty o djalë sa netet kalova
      With you, oh boy, how many nights did I pass

Declension

Declension of djalë
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative djalë djali djem djemtë
accusative djalin
dative djali djalit djemve djemve
ablative djemsh

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, Handbook of Comparative Historical Indo-European Linguistics, 2018, Berlin/Boston, page 1756

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • “djalë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “djalë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[2]
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