katund

Albanian

Alternative forms

• katûn(d) (Gheg), kotun (South Gheg, Arbanasi)

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κατοῦνα (katoûna, “soldier's tent, tent camp”).^[1][2] Orel derives it as compound of ka (“out, from”) and tund (“to shake, dangle”), supposedly a calque of South Slavic *kolyba (“hut”), folk-etymologized from *kolybati (“to shake”);^[3] however, Slavic is actually a loan from Ancient Greek καλύβη (kalúbē).

Noun

katund m (plural katunde, definite katundi, definite plural katundet)

1. village

   Gjithmonë kanë jetuar në katund.

   They have always lived in the village.

2. (historical) community of herdsmen
3. (historical) widely spread-out village
4. (Arvanitika) henhouse; disarray

Synonyms

• fshat
• trevë

Derived terms

• katundar
• katundari
• katundës
• katundisht

References

1. Demetrios Moutsos, “Middle Greek ϰατοῦνα and Albanian katunt”, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 88, no. 1 (1974): 59–73.
2. Topalli, K. (2017) “katund”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 736
3. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “katund”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 174