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sheh

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شیخ (şeyh, head of a religious order),[1][2][3][4][5] through a monophthongised dialectal variant.[n 1][5]

Noun

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sheh m (plural shehlerë or (archaic) sheha)

  1. head of a Muslim religious group. sheik

Derived terms

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Notes

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  1. ^ Attested as scech in an Italian-Turkish glossary from 1533 and as seh in a Latin-Turkish glossary from Hungary from 1672.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Jungg, G. (1895) “sceh”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 126
  2. ^ Mann, S. E. (1948) “sheh”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 470
  3. ^ Boretzky, N. (1976) Wörterbuch der albanischen Turzismen (Der türkische Einfluss auf das Albanische; 2) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 123
  4. ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “sheh”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1374
  5. 5.0 5.1 Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “sheh”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 445
  6. ^ Rocchi, L. (2007) “şeh”, in Ricerche sulla lingua osmanlı del XVI secolo. Il corpus lessicale turco del manoscritto fiorentino di Filippo Argenti (1533) (in Italian), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 229

Further reading

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  • “sheh”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1822

Manx

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish seiche, from Proto-Celtic *sekess, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (to cut) (compare Icelandic sigg (callus, hard skin)).[1] Compare Scottish Gaelic seiche and Irish seithe.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sheh f (genitive singular sheh, plural shehghyn)

  1. fur, hide, pelt, skin

Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sheh heh
after "yn", çheh
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sex-skā/i-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 331