mërshë

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *merusa, from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”), cognate with Middle High German morsch "decayed, pulpy", Lithuanian mir̃ti, Scottish Gaelic marbh, Latin morior.[1][2] Alternativly, from Macedonian мрша (mrša) or Bulgarian мърша (mǎrša).[3][4]

Noun

mërshë f (definite singular mërsha)

  1. rotting corpse, carrion
    Synonym: kërmë
  2. flab

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 263
  2. https://books.google.no/books?id=9chTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=kall%C3%ABnduar&source=bl&ots=l11EwO-kXE&sig=ACfU3U3jdm29k4Dzd-E4sddzaSaxSXRvIA&hl=no&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfs53gi8_pAhUHmIsKHd8bC1IQ6AEwC3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
  3. Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Åarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1992), 132.
  4. Xhelal Ylli, Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen, vol. 1: Lehnwörter (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1997), 165.
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