sheh

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شیخ (şeyh, “head of a religious order”),[1][2][3][4][5] through a monophthongised dialectal variant.[n 1][5]

Noun

sheh m (plural shehlerë or (archaic) sheha)

  1. head of a Muslim religious group. sheik

Declension

Declension of sheh
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sheh shehu shehlerë shehlerët
accusative shehun
dative shehu shehut shehlerëve shehlerëve
ablative shehlerësh

Derived terms

Notes

  1. ^ Attested as scech in an Italian-Turkish glossary from 1533 and as seh in a Latin-Turkish glossary from Hungary from 1672.[6]

References

  1. ^ Jungg, G. (1895) “sceh”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 126
  2. ^ Mann, S. E. (1948) “sheh”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 470
  3. ^ Boretzky, N. (1976) Wörterbuch der albanischen Turzismen (Der türkische Einfluss auf das Albanische; 2) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 123
  4. ^ Topalli, Kolec (2017) “sheh”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in Albanian), Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1374
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “sheh”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 445
  6. ^ Rocchi, L. (2007) “şeh”, in Ricerche sulla lingua osmanlı del XVI secolo. Il corpus lessicale turco del manoscritto fiorentino di Filippo Argenti (1533) (in Italian), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 229

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980, page 1822

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish seiche, from Proto-Celtic *sekess, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) (compare Icelandic sigg (“callus, hard skin”)).[1] Compare Scottish Gaelic seiche and Irish seithe.

Pronunciation

Noun

sheh f (genitive singular sheh, plural shehghyn)

  1. fur, hide, pelt, skin

Mutation

Mutation of sheh
radical lenition eclipsis
sheh heh
after "yn", çheh		 unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sex-skā/i-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 331
  2. ^ Christopher Lewin (2020) Aspects of the historical phonology of Manx, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, →DOI, page 70
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