Albanian possesses eight different lexemes built to a radical element vetë , with meanings ranging from ‘person’, ‘self’, ‘own’ to ‘only’ and ‘apart’. The aim of this paper is to clarify the distribution and meaning of these words in Old Albanian, in particular, in texts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I also discuss the etymology of these various stems, though the ultimate origin of vet(ë) cannot be established.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Michiel de Vaan (2024) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched one closely related paper. Consider it for comparative context: