lorzë
Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unclear. Used in a phrase flas si lorza (“to chat like a parrot”). A suffixal diminutive of an unattested *lori (“parrot lori, one of the subfamily Lorinae, now usually tribe Loriini”).[1]
Noun
[edit]lorzë f (plural lorzë, definite lorza, definite plural lorzat)
References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lorzë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 231
Further reading
[edit]- “lorëz”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006