thërrime

== Albanian == === Alternative forms === thërmi, thërmik, thërmiqe, thërmikla, thërmoqe, thërmokla, cërmok, thërmaqe thërrmijë thrrime, thrime, thërime, thryme — dialectal === Etymology === First attested in the old definite ablative in the Mëshari of Buzuku as fermeshit Borrowed from Greek θρύμμα (thrýmma, “crumb; fragment”), akin to Romanian fărâmă, Aromanian sãrmã. The verb thërrmoj (“to crumble, shatter”) was presumably coined in Albanian and borrowed into Balkan Romance as Aromanian sãrmu (“to crumble”), Romanian fărma, sfărma, fărâma, sfărâma (“to shatter, break”), from which Aromanian sãrmã (“crumb”) and Romanian fărâmă, sfărâmă (“crumb”) may have been formed as deverbals. The borrowing into Balkan Romance must have happened at a time when the Aromanian phoneme /θ/, now present in foreign words, did not yet exist and was hence adapted as /s/, while Daco-Romanian must have loaned the term from a northern dialect which had /f/ in this position, as in fërmi, attested in Buzuku. Has also been linked with ther (“to slaughter, pierce”), however the morphemes at stake are not well identified and the semantical evolution is not straightforward. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /θəˈrime/ Rhymes: -ime === Noun === thërrime f (plural thërrime, definite thërrimja, definite plural thërrimet) crumb Synonyms: grimcë, dromcë, thërrmijë small part, particle, fragment, bit Synonyms: fije, grimcë, thërrmijë (figurative) a very small amount, bit Synonyms: çikë, fije, grimcë, pikë ==== Declension ==== === References === === Further reading === “thërrím/e,~ja”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980, page 2064a Kristoforidhi, Kostandin (1904), “θε̯ρρίμε-ϳα”, in Λεξικὸν τῆς Ἀλβανικῆς γλώσσης [Lexikón tís Alvanikís glóssis] (in Greek), Athens, page 128