Lexeme: shpend

Language:
Albanian: Gheg
Meaning:
bird
Cognate Set:
*pet- [Proto-Indo-European]
Romanised orthography:
shpend
Notes: Also shpes(ë), shpezë.< *su-petno-t- (Huld, 1984: 154, in Kortlandt 1987).Alternatively, to pendë 'feather' < Lat. pinna, penna 'id.'. (Orel 429).