thjerë

Albanian

Alternative forms

• thjerrë, fjerë, fjerrë

Etymology

Ultimate origin is unknown. Possibly a Mediterranean Wanderwort. Orel reconstructs Proto-Albanian *tserā, which he relates to thërrmoj (“to crumble”) and thërrime (“crumb”). Moreover, Demiraj considers this word akin to Latin cicer (“chickpea”), Old Armenian սիսեռն (siseṙn, “chickpea”) and maybe Ancient Greek κριός (kriós, “a kind of chickpea”), from an Proto-Indo-European *(ḱi-)ḱer- (“pea”).

Noun

thjerë m

1. lentil

Derived terms

• thjermë
• thirqe

References

• Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎^[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 398
• Erat, Janez (2008) Etimološki slovar albanskega jezika [Albanian Etymological Dictionary]‎^[2] (in Slovene), 2 edition, page 112b
• Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “thjerë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 479
• Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎^[3], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 68