guvë

Albanian

Alternative forms

• guvër — dialectal

Etymology

Akin to Greek γούβα (goúva), γκούβα (gkoúva, “small pit; depression”), Aromanian guvã (“hole, cavity”), regional Romanian guvă (“nostril”). Other languages may have borrowed the word from Albanian where, given the variant guvër, it is most likely a variant of gavër (“hollow in a tree trunk; hole, cavity”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuvə/
• Rhymes: -uvə

Noun

guvë f (plural guva)

1. large pit, cavity; cave, grotto

   Synonyms: shpellë, gërrec

2. hollow in a tree trunk

   Synonyms: zgarbë, zgërbonjë, gavër, zgavër, gabrrec

Derived terms

• guvosh
• guvrim

 

References

• “gúv/ë,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 594a
• γούβα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
• Papahagi, T. (1974) “gúvă”, in Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd edition (overall work in Romanian and French), Bucharest, page 606f.
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “guv-ë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 139b
• Meyer, G. (1891) “guvɛ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 136