Etymologically

Albanian etymology in numbers

Counted from the etymologies of the 1 Albanian entry in this dictionary, and recounted every few hours as entries are added. See also Albanian words by origin.

Borrowed, inherited or formed

Each entry counted once: as borrowed if its etymology names a language it was taken from, else as inherited, else as formed within Albanian.

  • Borrowed 0% · 0 taken from another language
  • Inherited 100% · 1 passed down from an ancestor of Albanian
  • Formed in Albanian 0% · 0 compounds and derivatives of its own words
  • Not traced yet 0% · 0 no etymology links yet

Ultimate origins by language family

Where the 1 traced word end up when their etymologies are followed back as far as they go, from entry to entry, grouped into families and the branches of Indo-European.

  1. Unclassified 1 · 100% Proto-Albanian 1

When the words arrived

The 1 entry with a first-attestation date, by century and by the language each was borrowed from. Browse the words of each century →

  • Inherited or formed
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CenturyInherited or formedTotal
15th century11

Words other languages took from Albanian

3 entries of other languages in this dictionary were borrowed from Albanian or its earlier stages.

  1. Aromanian 3 banã, catã, shuplu

Most prolific roots

The words that the most Albanian entries go back to, at the far end of their etymologies.

  1. 1 Proto-Albanian *udrjā → ujë