fshat

Albanian

Alternative forms

• pshat

Etymology

Uncertain.

It was linked by Çabej with Bushat and reconducted to an indoeuropean root. There also have been roposal of a borrowing from Byzantine Greek φοσσᾶτον (phossâton), φουσσᾶτον (phoussâton, “encampment”), from Late Latin fossātum (“entrenchment, place enclosed by a ditch”).^[1][2] According to Barić, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-sed- (“sitting around”), and according to Balota in RHSEU, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-sek-ti- (“tilled around”).^[2]

Noun

fshat m (plural fshatra, definite fshati, definite plural fshatrat)

1. village, especially (politics) as a unit of local government in Albania
2. rural area, countryside

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fshat	fshati	fshatra	fshatrat
accusative		fshatin
dative	fshati	fshatit	fshatrave	fshatrave
ablative			fshatrash

Declension of fshat

Coordinate terms

• katund, trevë
• vilajet, sanxhak, kaza, nahijë
• prefekturë, nënprefekturë, krahinë, bashki, komunë
• qark, rreth, lokalitet, lagje

Descendants

• → Romanian: sat, fsat — obsolete

References

1. Guillaume Bonnet, Les mots latins de l’albanais (Paris–Montreal: L’Harmattan, 1998), 369
2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fshat”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 104