lupesh

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • llupesh, llupash

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lup-esja, from llup (“to gulp down, swallow”) (Proto-Albanian *lupa), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lupa. Compare Sanskrit लुम्पति (lumpáti, “to break down, injure”), Lithuanian lùpti (“to peel”), Latvian lupt (“to peel; eat”), Proto-Slavic *lupiti (“to peel”).[1]

Noun

lupesh m

  1. glutton

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 159
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