rrush

Albanian

Etymology

• From Proto-Albanian *rāguša, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥h₂gós (“berry”), oblique of *sróh₂gs (compare Ancient Greek ῥώξ (rhṓx, “grape”), Latin frāgum (“strawberry”)).^[1][2]

• From Proto-Albanian *rušša-, from Ancient Greek ῥώξ (rhṓx).^[3]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ruʃ]

Noun

rrush m (definite rrushi)

1. grape (Vitis vinifera)
2. dear; term of endearment

Hyponyms

hyponyms

• rrush i bardhë (“green grape”)
• rrush i thatë (“raisin”)
• rrush i zi (“purple grape”)
• rrush i egër, rrush gardhi, rrush lepuri (“wild grape”) (Vitis sylvestris)
• rrush frëngu, rrush toke, rrush venetiku (“gooseberry”) (Ribes uva-crispa)
• rrush gjarpi (“black bryony”) (Tamus communis)
• rrush mace (“rock currant”) (Ribes petraeum Wulf)
• rrush mali (“bilberry, whortleberry”) (Vaccinum myrtillus)
• rrush mandakuq, rrush me erë, rrush qelbës (“fox grape”) (Vitis labrusca)
• rrush pule (“wild strawberry”) (Fragaria vesca)
• rrush qeni (“whitebeam”) (Aria edulis, syn. Sorbus aria)
• rrush thëllëze (“daphne”) (Daphne oleoides)

References

1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “rrush”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 391
2. Paul Friedrich & D.Q. Adams, “Berry”, in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), 63.
3. Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 213