shegë

Albanian

Etymology

Possibly from a Mediterranean substrate word reconstructible as *si(l)gʷā whence also Ancient Greek σίδη (sídē).[1] By some identified as the source of Ancient Greek κυσήγη (kusḗgē).[2]

Noun

shégë f (indefinite plural shégë, definite singular shéga, definite plural shégët)

  1. pomegranate (tree and fruit)

Declension
Declension of shegë
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative shegë shegë shega shegët
accusative shegën
dative shege shegëve shegës shegëvet
ablative shegësh

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “shegë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 409
  2. Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016), “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor‎, page 41

Further reading
  • “shegë” on fjalorthi.com
  • shegë in Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe at shkenca.org
  • Giacomo Jungg (1895), “sceegh”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct (in Italian)
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1275: “la melagrana; il melograno” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
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