liqen

Albanian

Alternative forms

lëken

Etymology

First attested in 1555 by Buzuku as liqē, as well as by other Old Albanian authors, who also used lëqē. Both forms lead to a Common Albanian form *licẽ́n, with lengthening from *licến, inherited from Proto-Albanian *li/ekến(iy)a-, which was borrowed from Ancient Greek λεκάνιον (lekánion), a derivative of λεκάνη (lekánē, “tub, basin”).^[1]^[2] See for more.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /liˈcɛn/, [liˈcɕɛn]
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Noun

liqen m (plural liqene, definite liqeni, definite plural liqenet)

lake

Declension

Declension of **liqen**
	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	liqen	liqeni	liqene	liqenet
accusative	liqen	liqenin	liqene	liqenet
dative	liqeni	liqenit	liqeneve	liqeneve
ablative	liqeni	liqenit	liqenesh	liqeneve

Derived terms

liqenor

Related terms

lag
lëgatë

References

^ Demiraj, Bardhyl et al. (2021), “liqen”, in DPEWA. Digitales Philologisch-Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altalbanischen [DPEWA. Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of Old Albanian]
^ Brian Joseph, Adam Hyllenstad (2022), “12. Albanian”, in The Indo-European languages: A New Perspective On a Language Family, page 14:
The similarity between Alb. liqen ‘sea’, Arm. lič ‘sea’ and λίμνη ‘marsh, lake, basin; sea’ is also coin- cidental. Liqen is a loanword from Gk. λεκάνη ‘basin, tub’ (in Mod.Gk. also in the geographical sense), while lič can reflect *plēh2-g-iio̯ - ‘surface of the sea’, an adjective made from the vrd̥ dhi formation *plēh2-g-o- reflected in the variant lik, derived from *pelh2-go- > Gk. πέλαγος ‘sea’ (thus Kölligan 2019: 246); λίμνη is derived from λείμων ‘meadow’ with an original *-m- (i.e. not -μν- from *-gwn-). Thus, these three terms have nothing to do with one another (pace Holst 2009: 93).

[1] Demiraj, Bardhyl et al. (2021), “liqen”, in DPEWA. Digitales Philologisch-Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altalbanischen [DPEWA. Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of Old Albanian]

[2] Brian Joseph, Adam Hyllenstad (2022), “12. Albanian”, in The Indo-European languages: A New Perspective On a Language Family, page 14:
The similarity between Alb. liqen ‘sea’, Arm. lič ‘sea’ and λίμνη ‘marsh, lake, basin; sea’ is also coin- cidental. Liqen is a loanword from Gk. λεκάνη ‘basin, tub’ (in Mod.Gk. also in the geographical sense), while lič can reflect *plēh2-g-iio̯ - ‘surface of the sea’, an adjective made from the vrd̥ dhi formation *plēh2-g-o- reflected in the variant lik, derived from *pelh2-go- > Gk. πέλαγος ‘sea’ (thus Kölligan 2019: 246); λίμνη is derived from λείμων ‘meadow’ with an original *-m- (i.e. not -μν- from *-gwn-). Thus, these three terms have nothing to do with one another (pace Holst 2009: 93).

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