motër

See also: moter, mótèr, möter, and møter

Albanian

Alternative forms

• motrë, motërë, modër

Etymology

Alteration of dialectal motrë, from Proto-Albanian *mātrā, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂treh₂ (“mother’s sister”), variant of *méh₂truh₂ (compare Old English modrige, Ancient Greek μητρυιά (mētruiá, “stepmother”)), from *méh₂tēr (“mother”).

Noun

motër f (plural motra, definite motra, definite plural motrat)

1. sister

Declension

Declension of motër

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	motër	motra	motra	motrat
accusative		motrën
dative	motre	motrës	motrave	motrave
ablative			motrash

Further reading

• “motër”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• “motër”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Newmark, L. (1999) “motër”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]