TY - JOUR AU - Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz PY - 2012/02/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Albanian name for badger JF - Zeitschrift für Balkanologie JA - ZfB VL - 47 IS - 2 SE - Beiträge DO - UR - https://zeitschrift-fuer-balkanologie.de/index.php/zfb/article/view/274 SP - AB - The traditional etymology, according to which the Albanian term for ‘badger’, vjédhull(ë), derives from the verb <em>vjedh </em>‘to steal, to rob’, seems doubtful from both a phonological and semantic point of view. A new hypothesis, which refers to IE. <em>*wes-</em> ‘suet, lard, animal fat’ and especially to Iran. <em>*vasdah-</em> n. ‘animal fat’ (&lt; IE. <em>*wes-d[h]-es-</em>), is suggested. Finally, it is concluded that Alb. <em>vjédhull(ë)</em> and Roum. <em>viezure</em> ‘badger’ derives from IE. <em>*wesd[h]-ulā</em> f. (liter. ‘fat animal’).  ER -