mërkosh

Albanian

Etymology

From mërk +‎ -osh suffix expressing endearment, from Proto-Indo-European *meryo (“young man, woman”). Compare Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “knave, boy, girl”), Latin maritus (“married (of men)”), Lithuanian mergà, Old Prussian mergo (“girl, bondmaid”), Cornish myrgh (“daughter, woman”). Alternatively from Latin maricosus[1]

Noun

mërkosh m (plural mërkosha, definite mërkoshi, definite plural mërkoshët)

  1. man (who has just become a father)

See also

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN
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