mendis

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مهندس (mühendis), contaminated with mendje (“mind”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -is

Noun

mendis m (dialectal or archaic)

  1. engineer, master builder
    Synonym: inxhinier

References

  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “mendís”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 276b
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*myhendis”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 322

Esperanto

Verb

mendis

  1. past of mendi

Latin

Noun

mendīs

  1. dative/ablative plural of menda
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