trevë

See also: trêve

Albanian

Etymology

Pokorny (1959) attributed it to Proto-Indo-European *treb-, *trē̆b, *trōb (“building, dwelling”) (cf. Latin trabs (“balk, beam”), Welsh tref (“dwelling”), Lithuanian trobà (“house, edifice, building”), Old English ðorp.^[1]

Orel^[2] and Çabej^[3] attributed it to Middle Greek τρέβα "truce", itself from treve (also Old French trieve, whence French trêve), from Frankish *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (“fidelity; pledge”).

Noun

trevë f (plural treva, definite treva, definite plural trevat)

1. region, province, territory

   Synonyms: krahinë, tokë, truall, vend

2. pasture, meadow

   Synonyms: luadh, lëndinë, fushë

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trevë	treva	treva	trevat
accusative		trevën
dative	treveje	trevës	trevave	trevave
ablative			trevash

Declension of trevë

Derived terms

• trevoj

References

1. “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, J. Pokorny, 1959, Bern : Francke, pp.1090
2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “trevë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 464
3. Çabej, Eqrem. 1986. Studime gjuhësore I-VIII. Prishtinë: Rilindja. Page 194

Further reading

• “trevë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe‎ (in Albanian), 1980
• “trevë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “trevë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 524