grëmëratë

Albanian

Etymology

Unknown; possibly:

borrowed from Vulgar Latin *cremorātum, from Latin cremor (“porridge, stew; thick liquid”),[1]
from earlier *glëmëratë with liquid assimilation, borrowed from Latin glomerātum, participle of glomerāre (“make into a ball, pile in a heap”).[2]

Noun

grëmëratë f

beestings, clots of curdled milk

Descendants

→ Greek: γραμενάτα (gramenáta)[2]

References

Meyer, G. (1891), “grɛmɛratɛ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 130: “*cremorātum”
Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “grëmëratë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 123

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