rribë
Appearance
Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Albanian *wribā, from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, to bend”). Close to Lithuanian virbas (“rod, birch-rod, twig”), Proto-Slavic *vьrba (“pussy-willow”).[1]
Noun
[edit]rribë f (plural rriba, definite rriba, definite plural rribat)
References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “rribë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 386