katund

Albanian

Alternative forms

katûn(d) (Gheg), kotun (South Gheg, Arbanasi)

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κατοῦνα (katoûna, “soldier's tent, tent camp”).^[1]^[2] Orel derives it as compound of ka (“out, from”) and tund (“to shake, dangle”), supposedly a calque of South Slavic *kolyba (“hut”), folk-etymologized from *kolybati (“to shake”);^[3] however, Slavic is actually a loan from Ancient Greek καλύβη (kalúbē).

Noun

katund m (plural katunde, definite katundi, definite plural katundet)

village
Gjithmonë kanë jetuar në katund.
They have always lived in the village.
(historical) community of herdsmen
(historical) widely spread-out village
(Arvanitika) henhouse; disarray

Synonyms

fshat
trevë

Derived terms

References

^ Demetrios Moutsos, “Middle Greek ϰατοῦνα and Albanian katunt”, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 88, no. 1 (1974): 59–73.
^ Topalli, K. (2017) “katund”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 736
^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “katund”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 174

[1] Demetrios Moutsos, “Middle Greek ϰατοῦνα and Albanian katunt”, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 88, no. 1 (1974): 59–73.

[2] Topalli, K. (2017) “katund”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 736

[3] Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “katund”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 174

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