tërshërë

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • (Gheg): tërshanë, trishanë

Etymology

Rhotic alteration of Gheg, possibly from Vulgar Latin *trimēnsānum; akin to Old Italian tremeste (“cereal needing 3 months to ripen”).[1]

Noun

tërshërë f (indefinite plural tërshëra, definite singular tërshëra, definite plural tërshërat)

  1. oat

Derived terms
  • tërshanorë, tërshërët, tërshërëz, tërshërishtë

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 455
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