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sembër

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Proto-Slavic *sębrъ (fellow).[1]

Noun

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sembër m (obsolete)

  1. poor farmers who take turns using a team of oxen to which each contributes one ox
  2. herdsmen who merge their small herds for common pasturing

References

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  1. ^ 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

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  • Newmark, L. (1999) “sembër”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[2]