zanatçi
Albanian
Alternative forms
- zanaçi — dialectal, zanatli — northwestern Gheg
Etymology
By surface analysis, zanat (“craft”) + -çi.[1][2] Likely borrowed from dialectal form of Ottoman Turkish صنعتجی (sanatçı)[n 1][2] whence also Turkish sanatçı.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -i
Noun
zanatçi m (plural zanatçinj, definite zanatçiu)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | zanatçi | zanatçiu | zanatçinj | zanatçinjtë |
| accusative | zanatçiun | |||
| dative | zanatçiu | zanatçiut | zanatçinjve | zanatçinjve |
| ablative | zanatçinjsh | |||
Notes
References
- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “zanát”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, , page 481
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “zanatçi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, pages 523–524
- ^ Stachowski, Stanisław (1996) Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 2) (in German), Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, page 181f
- ^ Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 4)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis[1], volume 137, number 4, , page 321
Further reading
- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][2], 1980, page 2209
- Topalli, Kolec (2017) “zanatçi”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in Albanian), Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1614