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Opinions differ on the etymon of the root in Proto-Albanian, and eventually in Proto-Indo-European. On the basis of an alleged connection between Albanian dardhë and Greek ???????, ????? "wild pear", a common Indo-European root has been tentatively reconstructed by scholars: *ghor-d- "thorn bush"; *(n)gh?rdis; *gherzd(h)- "thorny, grain, barley". However it has been suggested

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