Lexeme: bushri

Language:
Albanian: Arbëresh
Meaning:
dog
Cognate Set:
bushri [Albanian: Arbëresh]
Romanised orthography:
bushri
Phonemic:
ˈbuʂɽi
Notes: ~ Std. Alb. bushtër f., det. -ra 'she-dog, bitch; slut, whore' with dialectal loss of -t- in a cluster.Might be related to bisht 'tail', i.e. 'the one having a/been characterized by a tail', cf. Hungarian farkas 'wolf' < farok 'tail' +‎ possesive adjectives forming -as.