mâz

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • Tosk: mës, mëz
  • Gheg: maz
  • plural: mëzenj, mëzër

Etymology

Gheg form of Tosk mëz, from Old Albanian manz (Buzuku), from Proto-Albanian *mandja, from *mand- (“to feed (trans.), suckle”) (modern mënd).[1][2] Close related to Messapic menza (“foal”). Lent Romanian mânz.[1] More at mënd.

Noun

mâz m (indefinite plural mëza, definite singular mëzi, definite plural mëzat)

  1. foal
  2. colt

Derived terms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 265
  2. Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 267
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