tërmet

• termet — dialectal
• tërmek, termek, tremek — Gheg
• tërmenk — Tosk
• turmeq, terëmot, terremot — Buzuku
• terramot — Calabria

Borrowed from Latin terrae mōtus, an archaic borrowing considering the /oː/ → /e/ shift. Borrowed from Romance in its /o/ variants.

• IPA^(key): /təɾˈmet/
• Rhymes: -et

tërmet m (plural tërmete, definite tërmeti, definite plural tërmetet)

1. earthquake

   Synonyms: dhelëkundje, shkundëllimë, potres (Borgo Erizzo)

   • 1685, Pjetër Bogdani, Cuneus Prophetarum, VT 1.5.30, page 38:

     Tremeκu ansctè gni Auuλè i trasce […]

     [Tremeku âshtë nji avullë i trashë ...]

     The earthquake is a dense vapour […]

• FGJSSH (1980), page 1995b: “tërmét,~i”; Mann (1948), page 516b: “tërmét”
• Topalli (2017), page 1467: “tërmet”; Orel (1998), page 454: “tërmet”
• Meyer (1891), page 427: “termék”; Miklosich AF, vol. 2, page 66: “847. terremuoto”
• Weigand (1914), page 88a: “termét-i”; Leotti (1916), page 168: “termét-i”; Bashkimi (1908), page 454a: “termék”
• Rossi (1875), page 1260b: “termèk”; Jungg (1895), page 156a: “termek”; Kristoforidhi (1904), page 422: “τε̯ρμέτ-ι”
• Bardhi (1635), page 173: “terræmotus — termech”