përrua
Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Gheg: përrue, përrû (-ni)
- singular: prroj (-i), prron (-i), prronjë (f.)
- plural: prrona, përronje, përrenjë
Etymology
[edit]A Balkan word. From Proto-Albanian *pVrē/ān-, or Proto-Albanian *per-rāno, possibly a prefixed derivative of rrua. Compare Romanian pârâu (“torrent, stream”), assimilated to râu (“river”).[1] Alternatively, from Old Albanian përruo, from Bulgarian порой (poroj, “torrent”).[2][3]
Noun
[edit]përrua m (plural përronj, definite përroi)
- torrent, rapid stream
- bed of a rapid stream or torrent
- (figurative) large quantity of something moving in a rush, torrent, gush
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: pârâu
References
[edit]- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 318
- ^ Stefan Schumacher, "Lehnbeziehung zwischen Protoalbanisch und balkanischem Latein bzw. Romanisch", in Albanische Geschichte: Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung (Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009), 45-8.
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “përrua”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 323
Further reading
[edit]- “përrua”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][2] (in Albanian), 1980