fishkët

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • fyshkët, vyshkët

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spūška, cognate with Lithuanian pùškas, pùškas (“blister, fin, pimple”), Latvian pusks (“tuft”).[1]

Adjective

fishkët (feminine fishkëte)

  1. withering, dry

Derived terms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fishkët”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 97
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