tërshërë

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • (Gheg): tërshanë, trishanë

Etymology

Rhotic alteration of Gheg, possibly from Vulgar Latin *trimēnsānum; akin to Old Italian tremeste (“cereal needing 3 months to ripen”).[1]

Noun

tërshërë f (plural tërshëra, definite tërshëra, definite plural tërshërat)

  1. oat

Derived terms

  • tërshanorë, tërshërët, tërshërëz, tërshërishtë

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “tërshërë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 455
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.