shpor
Albanian
Alternative forms
- shporë
- shpuer
Etymology
Either from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bear, lead across, penetrate”) (cf. shpoj and shporr), or a loanword from Gothic, through an unattested Vulgar Latin *spora.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃpoɾ/
- Rhymes: -oɾ
Noun
shpor m (plural shpore, definite shpori, definite plural shporet)
- (uncountable, anatomy) breastbone, keel, furcula
- Synonym: heqës
- (uncountable) saddle
- Synonym: samar
- spur
- Synonym: mamuz
- (botany) nectary
- furrow
- Synonym: hulli
- ridge, mound, bed, plot
- Synonyms: vllajë, lehe
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | shpor | shpori | shpore | shporet |
| accusative | shporin | |||
| dative | shpori | shporit | shporeve | shporeve |
| ablative | shporesh | |||
Derived terms
- shporëng
- shporëz
- shporis
- shporiz
- shporohem
- shporoj
Related terms
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shpor”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 430
Further reading
- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1], 1980
- “shpor”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “shpor”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 493