shosh
See also: Shosh
Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Albanian *śēś-, from Proto-Indo-European *seh1i- (“to sift, riddle”). Cognate to Ancient Greek σα̃σις (sãsis, “sieve”). The sh- comes from ś- by regressive assimiliation, with the second -ś- of the next syllable. A loanword from the Greek cannot be excluded.[1]
Verb
[edit]shosh (aorist shosha, participle shoshur) (transitive)
- to sift, riddle
- (figurative, originally northwestern Gheg, Shkodra) to investigate in minute detail, to know inside out
- Synonym: shoshit
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 364
Further reading
[edit]- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][2], 1980
- “shosh”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “shosh”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 488