Artistic literature and dialectal lexicon

Abstract

Every writer in his creativity retains the features of his dialect. Therefore, besides the common vocabulary, they use dialectal words that enrich the language and increase the effectiveness of its expressive power. We present some of them: amë “source” (Mjedja), from amë “mother” and “source of water”; cirlík (Mjedja), an onomatopoeia; cmag (N. Frashëri), related to cëmak and cimak; dëkoj (Fishta), with onomatopoeic origin; dënesë (Fishta) from dë- + ne- + -së being connected to nye ~ neu; e vdarë (Poradeci) from the verb bjerr “lose”; farmason (Poradeci) from mason (Fr. maçon “stone-mason”); gaç (Fishta) “donkey” from *gar-ç, being associated with agër and gare (Buzuku); gomën (Fishta) from Sl. glǫbina; I errmaktë (Mjedja) “left” from Lat. mancus “maimed, lame”; i riçëm (R. Siliqi), from the participle ritë of the verb rîj with the suffix -shëm; i shushulluar (Poradeci) from an onomatopoeia (shu-shu); jétullëz (De Rada) and hjetull (Giordano) from fjetull (It. fetta + -ull); kanísk (N. Frashëri) from Mod. Gr. κανίσκι; klind (Asdreni) from Lat. clino; mbroth (S. Frashëri) from Lat., It. prode “benefit”; men (Mjedja) from It. meno; murgjinë (Mjedja) from the plural murgj + -inë; ndoset “entirely, wholly” (Fishta), from the ablative case of the name dosë with the prefix n-; pekúl (N. Frashëri) “care” from Lat. peculium “special property”; rakitë (Poradeci), from Sl. rakita “willow”; rmajt (Fishta) “grave”, the plural of romanj (roman + -i); rrêj (Migjeni) from IE. *ren-; shporr (Asdreni) from sh- + IE. bher-; shqim (Mjedja) and shkim (Fishta) from shqyej and shkyej (shqye + -m); travajë (Mjedja) from it. travaglio; trirë (Kuteli), from Lat., It. trīna; vdjerr (Asdren) by bjerr “lose”; vome (Çajupi) from vaj; zdrale (Migjeni) from z- + *dra- + -lë being connected to zdramë; zgaq (Mjedja) from z- + gaqe; zgërbonjë (Kuteli) from zgarbë + -onjë.