Taulant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian Taulant.

Proper noun

Taulant

  1. A male given name from Albanian.
    • 2016 June 21, Susan Scutti, “Herbal remedies improve early menopause symptoms”, in CNN‎[1]:
      “Phytoestrogens are clinical components found in plants that are very similar to the female hormone, estrogen,” explained Dr. Taulant Muka, lead author of the new studyand[sic] a researcher at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Albanian

Etymology

“Of the Taulantii tribe”, after the name of the Taulantii, an Illyrian tribe, probably related to dallëndyshe (“swallow”).

Proper noun

Taulant m

  1. a male given name from Illyrian

Declension

Declension of Taulant
singular
indefinite definite
nominative Taulant Taulanti
accusative Taulantin
dat./abl. Taulanti Taulantit

References

  • Dražić, Marina, Antić, Ivana, editors (2019), Каталог најчешћих албанских имена и презимена [Catalogue of the most common Albanian names and surnames]‎[2] (in Serbo-Croatian), page 53
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