bishtajë
Albanian
editEtymology
editUncertain, but cognate to Romanian păstaie (“pod”), Aromanian pãstalji (“pod”):
- Possibly borrowed from Vulgar Latin *pī̆stālia (whence also the (A)Romanian words), from Late Latin pī̆stāre (“to pound”), frequentative of Latin pīnsāre (“to stamp, pound, crush”),[1] but this is semantically questionable.
- An alternative proposal is from bisht (“tail”) + -ajë.[2]
- Finally, may be of the same Iranian origin as Latin pistacium (“pistacchio”), Ancient Greek πιστάκιον (pistákion), βιστάκιον (bistákion), Persian بسته (boste, “nut”), Sanskrit बुस्त (busta, “husk or shell of fruit”).
Noun
editbishtajë f (plural bishtaje, definite bishtaja, definite plural bishtajet)
Declension
editDeclension of bishtajë
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | bishtajë | bishtaja | bishtaje | bishtajet |
accusative | bishtajën | |||
dative | bishtajeje | bishtajës | bishtajeve | bishtajeve |
ablative | bishtajesh |
References
editCategories:
- Albanian terms with unknown etymologies
- Albanian terms borrowed from Vulgar Latin
- Albanian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Albanian terms derived from Late Latin
- Albanian terms derived from Latin
- Albanian terms suffixed with -ajë
- Albanian terms derived from Iranian languages
- Albanian lemmas
- Albanian nouns
- Albanian feminine nouns