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hundë

hundë

See also: hunde, Hunde, and Hünde

Albanian

Noun

hundë f (indefinite plural hunda, definite singular hunda)

  1. nose
  2. tapered protrusion; ship's prow, promontory
  3. (colloquial) spout
  4. (geography) cape, promontory, point

Derived terms

  • hundaç, hundak, hundarak, hundç, hunde, hundës, hundëz, hundohem

Related terms

References

  1. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 152.
  2. Adam Hyllested, “Albanian hundë ‘nose’ and Faroese, SW Norwegian skon ‘snout’”, in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (Bremen: Hempen, 2012), 73-81.