hamshor

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • harmëshor

Etymology

From dialectal harmëshor, from Old Albanian harmëshuar, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *armissārius (compare Romanian armăsar), from Latin admissārius.[1][2]

Noun

hamshor m (plural hamshorë, definite hamshori, definite plural hamshorët)

  1. stallion
  2. stud horse

Declension

Declension of hamshor
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hamshor hamshori hamshorë hamshorët
accusative hamshorin
dative hamshori hamshorit hamshorëve hamshorëve
ablative hamshorësh

References

  1. ^ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary, s.v. “harmëshor” (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 143.
  2. ^ Guillaume Bonnet, Les mots latins de l’albanais (Paris–Montreal: L’Harmattan, 1998), 232, 327.