shterp

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • shterpë, shterkë

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek στέριφος (stériphos), which also gave Romanian sterp, Venetan sterpo, Friulian sterpe, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *exstirpus, from Latin exstirpo (“I root out”).[1][2]

Adjective

shterp

  1. barren, infertile

References

  1. ^ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 437.
  2. ^ Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Amsterdam–Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), 373.
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