dhen

• dhên, dhênd (Gheg)
• dhën (Tosk)

Plurale tantum; from the Gheg variant dhênd, from Proto-Albanian *dzenti, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, to beget, to give birth”). Compare Latin gens, English kin.

• IPA^(key): /ðɛn/

dhen f pl (definite plural dhentë)

1. small livestock, caprids (sheep, goats)
2. flock or herd of caprids

dhen

1. Soft mutation of den.

• IPA^(key): /ʝen/

dhen

1. Univerbation of dhe (“from, off”) +‎ an (“the”, sg)

The dh represents a voiced dental fricative, the same as in English that. Compare, then, another obsolete spelling of the same word.

dhen c

1. Obsolete spelling of den

dhen c (definite)

1. Obsolete spelling of den

From Middle English ten, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun. Cognates include English ten and Scots ten.

dhen

1. ten

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 16 & 34