fshat

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

It was linked by Çabej with Bushat and reconducted to an Indo-European root. There also have been proposal of a borrowing from Byzantine Greek φοσσᾶτον (phossâton), φουσσᾶτον (phoussâton, “encampment”) (whence modern φουσάτο (fousáto, “army unit; encampment”)), from Late Latin fossātum (“entrenchment, place enclosed by a ditch”).[1][2]

Noun

fshat m (plural fshatra, definite fshati, definite plural fshatrat)

  1. (politics) village, especially as a unit of local government in Albania
  2. rural area, countryside

Declension

Declension of fshat
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fshat fshati fshatra fshatrat
accusative fshatin
dative fshati fshatit fshatrave fshatrave
ablative fshatrash

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • → Aromanian: fsat
  • → Romanian: sat, fsat — obsolete

References

  1. ^ Bonnet, Guillaume (1999) Les mots latins de l’albanais (Sémantiques) (in French), Paris: L’Harmattan, →ISBN, page 369
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fshat”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 104

Further reading

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