thjerë

Albanian[edit]

Ultimate origin is unknown. Possibly a Mediterranean Wanderwort. Orel reconstructs Proto-Albanian *tserā, which he relates to thërrmoj (“to crumble”) and thërrime (“crumb”). Moreover, Demiraj considers this word akin to Latin cicer (“chickpea”), Old Armenian սիսեռն (siseṙn, “chickpea”) and maybe Ancient Greek κριός (kriós, “a kind of chickpea”), from an Proto-Indo-European *(ḱi-)ḱer- (“pea”).

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Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎^[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 398
Erat, Janez (2008) Etimološki slovar albanskega jezika [Albanian Etymological Dictionary]‎^[2] (in Slovene), 2 edition, page 112b
Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “thjerë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 479
Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎^[3], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 68