abonsina

Albanian

Etymology

It seems to be a complicated compound *a-bonus-ina, a derivation of Latin bonus with a similar development as Romanian pa bune "for real", creating the prefix a- and with an adverbial suffix -ina (Standard -irë), often used in Archaic Gheg.

Adverb

abonsina

1. (archaic) (Gheg) really

Synonyms

• (real): vërtetë

Derived terms

• abonsinëm

Further reading

• “abonsina”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• “abonsina”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006