voc

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See also: VOC, vóc, vọc, voc., and Voc.

Albanian

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Etymology

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Likely akin to vógël (small, young).[1] By some identified as the source of Ancient Greek βάδιος (bádios, child).[2]

Noun

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vóc m (plural vóca, definite vóci, definite plural vócat); feminine equivalent vóce

  1. (regional) young boy, child
    Synonym: çún

References

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “voc”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 513
  2. ^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016) “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor[1], pages 40–41

Further reading

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  • “voc”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2] (in Albanian), 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “voc”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary