përrua
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Alternative forms
- Gheg: përrue, përrû (-ni)
- singular: prroj (-i), prron (-i), prronjë (f.)
- plural: prrona, përronje, përrenjë
Etymology
A Balkan word. From Proto-Albanian *pVrē/ān-, or Proto-Albanian *per-rāno, possibly a prefixed derivative of rrua. Compare Romanian pârâu (“torrent, stream”), assimilated to râu (“river”).[1] Alternatively, from Old Albanian përruo, from Bulgarian порой (poroj, “torrent”).[2][3]
Noun
përrua m (plural përronj, definite përroi)
- torrent, rapid stream
- bed of a rapid stream or torrent
- (figurative) large quantity of something moving in a rush, torrent, gush
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Romanian: pârâu
References
- Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 318
- Stefan Schumacher, "Lehnbeziehung zwischen Protoalbanisch und balkanischem Latein bzw. Romanisch", in Albanische Geschichte: Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung (Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009), 45-8.
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “përrua”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 323
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