urtë
See also: urte
Albanian
Etymology
First attested in 1555. Uncertain, however, suggested to be:
- related to Old High German war (“aware, careful”),[1] from Proto-Albanian *urta, from Proto-Indo-European *ur-tó-s, from *wer- (“to observe, perceive”) + *-tós;[2]
- from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to speak emphatically, loudly”),[3] from Proto-Albanian *urta, presumably from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥-tó-s, from *h₂er- + *-tós;
- from unattested *ur + -të (verbal adjective suffix), from Proto-Albanian *wara, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros (“true”);[4]
- related to Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan, “to persecute”), Latin urgeō (“to press, push”),[5] presumably from Proto-Albanian *ur(k)ta, from Proto-Indo-European *urg-tó-s, from *wreg- (“to follow a trail”) + *-tós.
Adjective
i urtë (feminine plural të urta)
Related terms
References
- ^ Jokl, Norbert (1911) Studien zur albanesischen Etymologie und Wortbildung (Sitzungsberichte der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften; 168) (in German), Vienna: A. Hölder
- ^ Forschungen, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 229: “stalb. i urtë ‘klug, weise’ < frualb. *urta- < uridg. *u̯r̥-to-, Wz. 3. *u̯er- ‘beobachten, wahrnehmen’”
- ^ Fournet, Arnaud (2011) “A Critical Dictionary of Proto-Indo-European with Hurrian Comparative Indications. Part II: *H₃”, in The Macro-Comparative Journal[1], volume 2, number 1
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “urtë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 489
- ^ Treimer, Karl (1914) “Beiträge zur albanischen Sprachgeschichte”, in Mitteilungen des Rumänischen Instituts an der Universität Wien, volume I, pages 353-354: “als idg. ûrktós ‘gestoßen, gedemütigt’”