kopsht

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • kopësht

Etymology

Either:

  1. from Proto-Indo-European *kā́p-s ~ *káp-s-os, from *kap- (“to seize, hold”), suffixed with -shtë and ultimately a doublet of kap,
  2. or from Proto-Albanian *kāp-esta,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂po- (“land, garden”), cognate to Proto-Germanic *hōbō.[2][3]

In both cases it is also cognate to Ancient Greek κῆπος (kêpos).

Noun

kopsht m (plural kopshte, definite kopshti, definite plural kopshtet)

  1. garden
  2. kindergarten

Declension

Declension of kopsht
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative kopsht kopshti kopshte kopshtet
accusative kopshtin
dative kopshti kopshtit kopshteve kopshteve
ablative kopshtesh

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 160
  2. ^ Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[2] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 222
  3. ^ Forschungen, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 260

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[3], 1980
  • “kopsht”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “kopsht”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[4]
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