degë
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See also: dege
Albanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Albanian *duaigā, from Proto-Indo-European *dwoy-, from the root *dwi- (“binary, consisting of two”). Cognate to Old High German zwig (“forking, crotch (of tree); bough, branch”).[1] Alternatively from a root *deh₃gʰ- shared with Proto-Germanic *tōgô (“branch”).[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
degë f
Coordinate terms[edit]
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 125
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*tōgan- ~ *takkan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 519