| 释义 |
Tosk, n. and a.|tɒsk|
Also Toshke.
[a. Alb. Toskë.]
A. n. (A member of) one of the major ethnic groups of Albania, living mainly in the south of the country. Also, the Albanian dialect spoken by this people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Tosks or their language. Cf. Gheg.
1835[see Gheg]. 1900‘Odysseus’ Turkey in Europe ix. 397 The Southern Albanians differ from the Northerners... Their generic name is Tosk. Ibid. 401 The whole of the Tosk country has been strongly influenced by Greece. 1908T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. ix. 195 A number of dialects, usually grouped under the two heads Ghegh (to the north) and Tosk (to the south), spoken by the Albanians..are admitted to belong to the Indo-European stock. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 331 The language [sc. Albanian] falls into two groups, each with a number of sub-dialects: Geg (with colonies in Dalmatia) to the north and Tosk (with colonies in Greece, Italy, and Sicily) to the south of the Shumbi River. 1958[see Gheg]. 1966E. P. Hamp in Birnbaum & Puhvel Anc. Indo-Europ. Dial. 98 Rosetti, however, mistakenly repeats the myth that some Tosk dialects show Geg characteristics. 1980Word 1979 XXX. 27 Within Albania the proportion of northerners (Gegs) to southerners (Tosks) is almost equal. Ibid. 41 The imposition of Tosk upon a population that was not entirely Tosk-speaking. 1983Ibid. XXXIV. 26 Arvanítika is the form of Tosk Albanian spoken in Greece; it is closely related to the southernmost variety of Albanian. |