gjysh
Albanian
/ɟyʃ/
noun
Definitions
- grandfather
- (colloquial) honorific term for an elderly man
- (religion) head of a group of Bektashi congregations
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Albanian *sūša derived from Proto-Indo-European *suHsos.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*suHsos
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- godson English
- grandson English
- son English
- son-in-law English
- son-out-law English
- sonfucker English
- sonhood English
- sonless English
- sonlike English
- sonling English
- sonly English
- sonness English
- sonnish English
- sonny English
- sonship English
- stepson English
- whoreson English
- *suHsos Proto-Indo-European
- sonn Middle English
- ghiuj Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- gjyshe Albanian
- *sūša Proto-Albanian