viç

• plural: viçe (Arvanitic), viçërë (Arvanitic), viçra (Arbëreshë)

From *vitësh (cf. ablative form of vit (“year”) > vitesh), from Proto-Albanian *wetuša, from *wétos-jo, from Proto-Indo-European *wéteso (compare English wether, Sanskrit वत्स (vatsa), Romanian vițel). Related to Albanian vit (“year”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /vit͡ʃ/
• IPA^(key): /vic/, /vic͡ɕ/, /vit͡ɕ/ (Gheg)

• viç m (plural viça, definite viçi, definite plural viçat) (Standard)
• viç m (plural viçëra, definite viçi, definite plural viçërat) (Tosk)
• viç m (plural viç(ë)na, definite viçi, definite plural viç(ë)nat) (Gheg)

1. calf; cattle (offspring of a cow); (up to one year old)^[2]
2. fawn; deerling

   (offspring of a deer and/or other animals (such as antelope, etc.))

3. (figurative, derogatory) stupid, small-minded, narrow-minded; immature, inexperienced (male) person; fool, boxhead, squarehead, idiot

   Çfarë krye viçi!

   What a fool!

   (lit. "What a calf head!")

4. (figurative, slang) bighead

   O krye viç!

   Hey bighead!

5. (slang, derogatory) pet name/nickname for Slobodan Milosević (innuendo to his surname ending -vić)
6. (slang, derogatory) četnik, Serb, Montenegrin (also innuendo to endings -ević, -ović, -vić, -ić common among south Slavic surnames. Primarily associated with ethnic Serbs and Montenegrins. Term used in a derogatory tone, excluding Slovenes, Croats and Bosniacs)

• (Standard)

• (Tosk dialects)

• (Gheg dialects)

• vjetë

• viçar, viçe, viçok, viçoke

• vit
• vjetër
• vjeç

• “viç”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006