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Reconstruction:Proto-Albanian/deina

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Proto-Albanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *dey-no-, ultimately from *dyew- (to shine). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *dьnь, Latvian diena, Lithuanian dėina, Old Prussian dēinā.[1]

Noun

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*deina

  1. day

Derived terms

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  • *deina (to break (of day/dawn))
    • Albanian: din (verb)

References

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “din”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 66