albargă

Polabian
albargă

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German herberge, from Old Saxon heriberga, from Proto-West Germanic *harjabergu + Polabian -ă (inflectional ending). [l] instead of expected [r] is an effect of dissimilation, possibly under influence of Italian albergo, which was also known in Germany.

Noun

albargă f

  1. inn

References
  • Lehr-Spławiński, T.; Polański, K. (1962), “albargă”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), issue 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław; Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 17
  • Polański, Kazimierz; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “albargă”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 34
  • Olesch, Reinhold (1962), “Albarga”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volume 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 4
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