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Glăvină (f)

(with) definite article: Glăvina
plural: Glăvine [?]; (with) definite article: ? - [Glăvinele?]
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From Slavic глава (glàva [head]); In Habenicht incorrectly spelt "Glavina", with 2 common a’s, instead of ă [a-breve], which represents the "shwa" sound (Compare "ə" in "gɪvən", which is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription of English "given"); NB: ➺ homonyms, &c.


Sources

Habenicht, Gottfried: Die rumänischen Sackpfeifen. In: Jb. f. Volksliedforschung, 19. Jahrgang (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1974), p.129 (glavina).

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