anije

• ani, anie, anijë — dialectal

From anë (“container”) +‎ -i, subsequently relevelled to -je. For semantical parallels between “ship” and “container” compare English vessel, German Schiff, etc. Given how its earliest attestations are in Calabria, Topalli (2017) suggests that it is possible that the word was coined there and came to Albania via literary works. In Bashkimi (1908) it is labelled as “Rada”, see quote below. Sense 3 is a semantic loan from European languages, compare Latin nāvis (“ship; nave”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈnije/
• Rhymes: -ije

anije f (plural anije, definite anija, definite plural anijet)

1. ship, large watercraft, vessel
   • 1836, Girolamo de Rada, Canti di Milosao, Naples: Guttemberg, page 54, lines 50–52:

     Vuu paλazzὺt cy byri nana // Tech ania mbrymanet

     [Vū palacët çë bëri nana // tek ania mbrëmanet]

     She put the bedsheets made by her grandmother on the ship in the evening

2. spaceship, spacecraft

   anije kozmike ― spaceship

   anije ndërplanetare ― interplanetary spaceship

4. (architecture) nave; aisle (of a church)

   Synonyms: anijatë, navatë

   anija qendrore ― nave

   anija anësore ― aisle

• FGJSSH (1980), page 36b: “aníj/e,~a”
• Topalli (2017), page 105a: “aníje”
• Kamsi (2000), page 20a: “ani-a”
• Giordano (1963), page 10b: “aní-a”
• Mann (1948), page 8a: “anije”
• Çekrezi (1923), page 151a: “ship” → “anie”
• Bashkimi (1908), page 23a: “ânijé”
• Meyer (1891), page 13: “anī́”