flojere

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • flojerë, floerë

Etymology

Borrowed from Aromanian fluiarã, fluearã,[1] from Latin flātūrālis (“blowing”, adj.), from flātūra (“act of blowing”).[2]

Noun

flojere f (definite flojerja)

  1. (dialectal) flute

Synonyms

Descendants

  • → Greek: φλογέρα (flogéra)

References

  1. ^ Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), 172.
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “flojere”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 100
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