thelb

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • singular: thelp (pl. thelpinj), thalb, thalp
  • plural: thelbe, thelba, thalba, thelbna

Etymology

From older and dialectal thalb, from Proto-Albanian *tsalba, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”) (compare Ancient Greek κέλυφος (kéluphos, “shell, pod”), Old English heolstor (“darkness”)).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈθɛlb]

Noun

thelb m (plural thelpinj, definite thelbi, definite plural thelpinjtë)

  1. kernel (of nut), meat (of walnut)
  2. core, pith, stone (of fruit)
  3. clove (of garlic)
  4. (botany) cotyledon
  5. (figurative) core, essence, heart

Declension

Declension of thelb
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative thelb thelbi thelpinj thelpinjtë
accusative thelbin
dative thelbi thelbit thelpinjve thelpinjve
ablative thelpinjsh

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “thelb”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 474

Further reading

  • “thelb”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “thelb”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[2]
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