lencue

Albanian

Etymology

A variant lencol. An earlier loan.

Noun

lencue m (definite lencoi) (archaic)

1. sheet, bedsheet

   Synonym: çarçaf

2. shroud, winding cloth

   Synonym: qefin

References

• Bardhi, Frang (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 49: “linteolum — lenzue”
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “lencue”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 241a
• Dashi, B. (2013) “lenzuolo”, in Italianismi nella lingua albanese (in Italian), Edizioni Nuova Cultura, →ISBN, page 254