Albanian

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Etymology

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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

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shégë f (plural shégë, definite shéga)

  1. pomegranate (tree and fruit)

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (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[1], page 41

Further reading

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  • shegë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006
  • “shegë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe[2] (in Albanian), 1980
  • Jungg, G. (1895) “sceegh”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct, page 126
  • 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