trevë

See also: trêve

Albanian

Etymology

Pokorny (1959) attributed it to Proto-Indo-European *treb-, *trē̆b, *trōb (“building, dwelling”) (cf. Latin trabs (“balk, beam”), Welsh tref (“dwelling”), Lithuanian trobà (“house, edifice, building”), Old English ðorp.

Orel and Çabej attributed it to Middle Greek τρέβα "truce", itself from treve (also Old French trieve, whence French trêve), from Frankish *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (“fidelity; pledge”).

Noun

trevë f (plural treva, definite treva, definite plural trevat)

1. region, province, territory

   Synonyms: krahinë, tokë, truall, vend

2. pasture, meadow

   Synonyms: luadh, lëndinë, fushë

Declension

Declension of trevë

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trevë	treva	treva	trevat
accusative		trevën
dative	treveje	trevës	trevave	trevave
ablative			trevash

Derived terms

• trevoj

Further reading

• “trevë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• “trevë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “trevë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 524