lyshtër

Albanian

Etymology

From Latin lustrum (“bog, morass”).[1] Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *lūm(i)štrā, a formation based on lym.

Noun

lyshtër f

  1. debris (carried by river); mountain ravine, precipice

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lyshtër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 237
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