usht

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Identical to ushtë (“spear; unripe spike”), from Proto-Albanian *ušta, close to Old High German ort (“point”), Old Norse oddr (“point”) and Lithuanian usni̇̀s (“thistle”).[1]

Noun

usht m (plural ushta, definite ushti, definite plural ushtat)

  1. ear, spike (of grain)

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “usht”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 490
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