mjedër

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • mjedhër, mjetërr, midër, mitër

Etymology

From the more conservative variant mjedhër, from Proto-Albanian *mesdrā, presumably cognate with Lithuanian mẽdis (“tree; wood”) and Latvian mežs (“wood”);[1] however, these are in fact from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”). On both semantic and phonetic grounds, one might also consider a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey, mead”).

Noun

mjedër f (plural mjedra, definite mjedra, definite plural mjedrat)

  1. raspberry
  2. mulberry
  3. tares

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mjedhër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 269
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