katund

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • katûn(d) (Gheg), kotun (South Gheg, Arbanasi)

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κατοῦνα (katoûna, “soldier's tent, tent camp”).[1][2] Orel derives it as compound of ka (“out, from”) and tund (“to shake, dangle”), supposedly a calque of South Slavic *kolyba (“hut”), folk-etymologized from *kolybati (“to shake”);[3] however, Slavic is actually a loan from Ancient Greek καλύβη (kalúbē).

Noun

katund m (plural katunde, definite katundi, definite plural katundet)

  1. village
    Gjithmonë kanë jetuar në katund.
    They have always lived in the village.
  2. (historical) community of herdsmen
  3. (historical) widely spread-out village
  4. (Arvanitika) henhouse; disarray

Declension

Declension of katund
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative katund katundi katunde katundet
accusative katundin
dative katundi katundit katundeve katundeve
ablative katundesh

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • katundar
  • katundari
  • katundës
  • katundisht
  • katundarshe/katundarshja

References

  1. ^ Demetrios Moutsos, “Middle Greek ϰατοῦνα and Albanian katunt”, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 88, no. 1 (1974): 59–73.
  2. ^ Topalli, Kolec (2017) “katund”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in Albanian), Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 736
  3. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “katund”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 174

Further reading

  • “katund”, 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
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