gheg
/ɡɛɡ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to this people.
Example Sentences
- "Gheg (Gepides) in Upper Albania, as far south as River Shkumbi, and penetrating eastwards across the Morava Valley nearly to Sophia, with detached enclaves in Servia, but on the other hand partly Slavonised on the Montenegrin frontier."
- "The Ghegs live in and around Dibra, Tetovo and Skoplye."
- "Northern Albania, populated by the Ghegs, is a stronghold of the Democratic Party and of the criminal clans, or fares, who control the oil smuggling business, arms trade with the Kosovo Albanians (also Ghegs) and the shipments of heroin to western Europe (especially to Austria, Germany and Switzerland)."
- "He also seemed to change course, ever so cautiously, on the issue of national identity, by taking up the cause of the Gheg Albanians of the Kosovo."
- "The term Gheg refers to the northern Albanians, that is, all Albanians living north of the Shkumbin River and speaking Gheg dialects."
- "Gheg dialects"
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Ghegs (plural)
Geg (alternative)