mendis

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مهندس (mühendis), contaminated with mendje (mind).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mendis m (dialectal or archaic)

  1. engineer, master builder
    Synonym: inxhinier

References

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  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “mendís”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 276b
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*myhendis”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 322

Esperanto

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Verb

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mendis

  1. past of mendi

Latin

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Noun

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mendīs

  1. dative/ablative plural of menda