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Albanian: kjeni

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Lexeme data

Language:Albanian
Meaning:dog
Source form:kjeni
Phonological form:
Gloss:
Notes:Relatively late loanword from Lat canem or, rather, from its Balkan continuations, reflected in the lack of rhotacism in Tosk.
Cognate codes:(A)

Sources of lexical data

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Source: Orel, Vladimir. 1998. Albanian Etymological Dictionary. Leiden: Brill.
Pages: 356
Reliability: Loanword
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Source: Holm, Hans J. 2011. "Swadesh lists" of Albanian Revisited and Consequences for Its Position in the Indo-European Languages, The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 39: 1&2, 1-53.
Pages: 13
Reliability: Loanword
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Source: Dyen, Isidore Kruskal, Joseph and Black, Paul (1992). An Indoeuropean Classification, a Lexicostatistical Experiment. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 82/5.
Reliability: Good (e.g. should be double checked)

Cognate coding

Cognate Class A
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Source: Orel, Vladimir. 1998. Albanian Etymological Dictionary. Leiden: Brill.
Pages: 356
Reliability: High
Comment: Overrides a Dyen et al. judgement