sembër
Appearance
Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Proto-Slavic *sębrъ (“fellow”).[1]
Noun
[edit]sembër m (obsolete)
- poor farmers who take turns using a team of oxen to which each contributes one ox
- herdsmen who merge their small herds for common pasturing
References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 40
Further reading
[edit]- Newmark, L. (1999) “sembër”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[2]