xhuxhmaxhuxh
Albanian
FWOTD – 22 October 2023
Alternative forms
- xhuxh ma xhuxh, xhuxh-ma-xhuxh
- xhuxhimâxhuxh — Gheg, archaic
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یأجوج و مأجوج (yeʼcuc ve meʼcuc, “Gog and Magog”),[1] crossed with xhuxh (“dwarf”) and often reanalysed as literally meaning some sort of “dwarf more dwarf”, or “[even] shorter dwarf”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒud͡ʒmaˈd͡ʒud͡ʒ/
- Rhymes: -ud͡ʒ
Noun
xhuxhmaxhuxh m (plural xhuxhmaxhuxhë)
- (folklore) dwarf, gnome
- Synonym: xhuxh
- 2011, Janaq Pani, “Një xhuxhmaxhuxh”, in www.zemrashqiptare.net[1], archived from the original on 7 September 2023, lines 1–2:
- Një xhuxhmaxhuxh takoj një herë / që rrinte qetë nën një zambak […]
- I ran into a dwarf once, / who was sitting quitely under a lily […]
- short-legged person, shorty, midget
- Synonyms: shkurtabiq, xhuxh
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | xhuxhmaxhuxh | xhuxhmaxhuxhi | xhuxhmaxhuxhë | xhuxhmaxhuxhët |
| accusative | xhuxhmaxhuxhin | |||
| dative | xhuxhmaxhuxhi | xhuxhmaxhuxhit | xhuxhmaxhuxhëve | xhuxhmaxhuxhëve |
| ablative | xhuxhmaxhuxhësh | |||
Adjective
xhuxhmaxhuxh (feminine xhuxhmaxhuxhe)
- short, short-legged
- Synonyms: xhuxh, i shkurtër, shkurtabiq
References
Further reading
- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][2], 1980, page 2202
- Jungg, G. (1895) “gugimâguug”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 186
- Topalli, Kolec (2017) “xhuxhmaxhuxh”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in Albanian), Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1606