yll
See also: YLL
Albanian
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Alternative forms
[edit]- hyll
- uvill, uj, ydh — eastern Gheg
- ill, ull, (plural) ile — Arvanitika, Arbëresh
- (Budi) yyll, (Buzuku) uill — obsolete
Etymology
[edit]Disputed. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁us-los, whence Old English ysle, Old Norse usli (“embers”), from *h₁ews- (“to burn”).[1] Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *h₂us-los, compare Sanskrit उस्र (usrá, “reddish, ruddy; bright; matutinal”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn”).[2] Also in view of the alternative with h-, there have been posited connections with *sóh₂wl̥, *sh₂wén- (“sun”), whence Latin sōl, and with *(s)ḱeh₃ih₂ (“shadow”), whence Albanian hije.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yll m (plural yje, definite ylli, definite plural yjet)
- (astronomy) star
- (figurative) fate, luck
- (colloquial) luminary
- (colloquial) reputation
- Synonym: famë
Declension
[edit]Declension of yll
Hyponyms
[edit]- bishtyll (“comet”)
- yll deti (“starfish”)
- yll i mollës (“apple blossom”)
- yll me bisht (“comet”)
- ylli i karvanit (“morning star, Venus”)
- ylli polar (“northern star”)
Derived terms
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[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 206
- ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 220
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “yll”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 518