Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The dialect of Albanian spoken in the northern half of Albania and in Kosovo as well as by populations in Macedonia and Montenegro.
- noun An Albanian who speaks Gheg.
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- proper noun The
Albanian language spoken in NorthernAlbania ,Kosovo ,Macedonia ,Montenegro and southernSerbia .
Etymologies
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Another branch of the Indo-European language family is Albanian, with two main dialects: Gheg, spoken in and beyond the capital city, Tirana, in northern Albania; and Tosk, the dominant language south of the Shkumbin River, which divides the country pretty neatly in half.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Another branch of the Indo-European language family is Albanian, with two main dialects: Gheg, spoken in and beyond the capital city, Tirana, in northern Albania; and Tosk, the dominant language south of the Shkumbin River, which divides the country pretty neatly in half.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Croatia-Slavonia, some of the Gheg tribes in Albania, about 21\% of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The old man said modestly that if I were really interested in his family, he would like to give me his family tree, and did so, – from Gheg Laz, through his second son, Djun Gheg, down to his own great-grandson, a strapping child, the apple of his great-grandsire's eye.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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Thirteen generations ago, one Gheg Lazar came to this land with his four sons, and it is from these that we of Hoti descend.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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WE left early next morning for Seltze-Kilmeni, piloted by the old man, and followed a stony track to Rapsha, whose people derive from Laj Gheg, son of Gheg Laz.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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Then came a descent over the other side, into a wooded, cultivated hollow, where stood Hoti's second church, that of the men of Treboina, who trace their descent from Pyetar Gheg, fourth son of Gheg Laz.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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When Gheg Laz and his sons came here, there were already people here.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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Nor could the old man see that, after thirteen generations of intermarriage, the stocks of Gheg Laz and the Anas must be very considerably related.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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Shaban Benaku, the celebrated chief of Krasnich, is straight from Krasni, brother of Gheg Laz, my forefather.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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