urith

Albanian

Alternative forms

• uri, ur

Etymology

Diminutive of variant uri, from archaic ur, from Proto-Albanian *wara, from Proto-Indo-European *wewer (“squirrel”) (compare Serbo-Croatian vjȅverica, Lithuanian voverė, Latin viverra (“ferret”)).

Noun

urith m

1. mole (rodent)

Declension

Declension of urith

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	urith	urithi	urithë	urithët
accusative		urithin
dative	urithi	urithit	urithëve	urithëve
ablative			urithësh

Further reading

• “urith”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980