shtreth

Albanian

Etymology

• Compound of sh- (“de-, dis-, un-”) + dredh (“turn, revolve, twist”).
  • Prefix sh- (“de-, dis-, un-”) from the same root as ith (“behind”), namely Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs.
  • dredh from Proto-Albanian *drē̆δ-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵʰ-. Cognate to Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn, revolve”), Gothic dragan (“to draw, accumulate, take on”), English drag. Related to dridh (“tremble, quake rock, move”), from Proto-Albanian *dreδ-, from Proto-Indo-European *d(h)r- (“to tremble, quake, rock”). Cognate to Lithuanian drebù (“to tremble, quake”).
• A variant of shtreze, from shtroj, related to shtrij.
• According to Orel, from shtrat.

Noun

shtreth m (plural shtrethe, definite shtrethi, definite plural shtrethet)

1. board

Declension

Declension of shtreth

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	shtreth	shtrethi	shtrethe	shtrethet
accusative		shtrethin
dative	shtrethi	shtrethit	shtretheve	shtretheve
ablative			shtrethesh

Related terms

• shtreze