argjend

• ërgjënd — Tosk
• argjand, rgjand, rrgjand — Gheg
• ërgjand — old Albanian

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from Latin argentum (“silver”). The modern form is possibly borrowed from Italian argento (“silver”), whereas the older form rgjand was directly loaned from Latin.^[1][2] Considering the attested argjand, a prothetic a- (compare Buzuku's ergjand) or contamination from the Italian term cannot be excluded.

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈɟend/

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• Rhymes: -end

argjend m (uncountable)

1. silver (metal)

   Synonym: serm

   • 1555, Gjon Buzuku, Meshari‎^[1], page of ms. A: 062r; of ms. B: 072r, lines 15–16:

     e ћi iane teh beћate en ergandi: e arrih

     [E qi janë të begatë ën ërgjandi e ari.]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. silver thread, for embroidery

argjend

1. silver, silvery

   Synonym: i argjendtë

• → Aromanian: argheandu

• “argjend,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2], 1980, page 47b
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “argjând”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 10b
• Meyer, G. (1891) “arǵánt-di”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 15

• Topalli, Kolec (2017) “argjend”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in Albanian), Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 118