rosë

See also: rose, Rose, rosé, róse, and Ròse

Albanian

Etymology

From Old Albanian (Tosk) *roça, from Proto-Albanian *(a)nātjā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts (compare Ancient Greek νῆσσα (nêssa), νῆττα (nêtta), Lithuanian ántis, Dutch eend).[1] Lent Slovene raca, Romanian rață.

Noun

rosë f (indefinite plural rosa, definite singular rosa, definite plural rosat)

  1. duck (Anas)

Declension

Derived terms

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 374
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