gravë

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *gravā, close to Lithuanian griovà, Latvian grava (“ravine, precipitous valley”), Old Prussian grauwus (“side”). Probably related to grabë.[1]

Noun

gravë f (indefinite plural grava, definite singular grava, definite plural gravat)

  1. cave, den, lair

Declension

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 48
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