lopë

See also: lope, Lope, and løpe

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • liópe[1] (Arbëresh, Arvanitic)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lāpā, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (compare Latvian lùops (“cattle”), Old Irish lóeg (“calf”)).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɔ.pə/

Noun

lópë f (plural lopë, definite lopa, definite plural lopët)

  1. cow

Declension

Declension of lopë
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative lopë lopa lopë lopët
accusative lopën
dative lope lopës lopëve lopëve
ablative lopësh

References

  1. ^ William Martin-Leake (2010) Reasearches in Greece, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, →ISBN, page 293 ([1] - liópe)
  2. ^ Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2009), p. 231.

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2], 1980
  • “lopë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “lopë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary
  • Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lopë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 231
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