udhë

Albanian

Disputed. Possibilities include:

From Proto-Indo-European *uǵʰ-eh₂, from the root *weǵʰ- (“to bring, carry”),^[1]^[2] whence also Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs, “way, road”).
From Proto-Albanian *wadā, from Proto-Indo-European *wodʰ-eh₂, from the root *wedʰ- (“to beat, strike”),^[3] whence also Sanskrit वध् (vadh, “kill, strike”).
Akin or borrowed from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “way, road”).^[4]
From Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to lead”).

By some identified as the source of Ancient Greek οおみくろんὔθしーたαあるふぁ (oútha, “dust; way, road”).^[5]

udhë f (plural udhë, definite udha, definite plural udhët)

Declension of udhë

^ Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 239
^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎^[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 400
^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “udhë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 482–483
^ Mann, Stuart E. (1977) An Albanian Historical Grammar‎^[2], Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, →ISBN, page 112
^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016) “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor‎^[3], page 41