thërrime

• thërmi, thërmik, thërmiqe, thërmikla, thërmoqe, thërmokla, cërmok, thërmaqe
• thërrmijë
• thrrime, thrime, thërime, thryme — dialectal

First attested in the old definite ablative in the Mëshari of Buzuku as fermeshit

Borrowed from Greek θρύμμα (thrýmma, “crumb; fragment”),^[1] akin to Romanian fărâmă, Aromanian sãrmã.^[2][3] The verb thërrmoj (“to crumble, shatter”) was presumably coined in Albanian and borrowed into Balkan Romance as Aromanian sãrmu (“to crumble”), Romanian fărma, sfărma, fărâma, sfărâma (“to shatter, break”), from which Aromanian sãrmã (“crumb”) and Romanian fărâmă, sfărâmă (“crumb”) may have been formed as deverbals. The borrowing into Balkan Romance must have happened at a time when the Aromanian phoneme /θ/, now present in foreign words, did not yet exist and was hence adapted as /s/, while Daco-Romanian must have loaned the term from a northern dialect which had /f/ in this position, as in fërmi, attested in Buzuku.

Has also been linked with ther (“to slaughter, pierce”),^[4][5] however the morphemes at stake are not well identified and the semantical evolution is not straightforward.

• IPA^(key): /θəˈrime/
• Rhymes: -ime

thërrime f (plural thërrime, definite thërrimja, definite plural thërrimet)

1. crumb

   Synonyms: grimcë, dromcë, thërrmijë

   • 1827, Vangjel Meksi, Δγιάτα ἐ ῥέ, Luke 16:21, page 253:

     Ε δ̇ε̰σ̈ε̰ρὸν τὲ̰ φρίχ̇εϊγ γκὰ θρίμμετε̰ κ̇ὲ̰ π̇ίγνε̰ γκὰ με̰σάλ̇α ἐ σὲ̰ πάσουριτ

     [E dëshëron të frihej nga thrimetë që bijnë nga mësalla e së pasurit]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. small part, particle, fragment, bit

   Synonyms: fije, grimcë, thërrmijë

3. (figurative) a very small amount, bit

   Synonyms: çikë, fije, grimcë, pikë

• “thërrím/e,~ja”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 2064a
• Kristoforidhi, Kostandin (1904) “θε̯ρρίμε-ϳα”, in Λεξικὸν τῆς Ἀλβανικῆς γλώσσης [Lexikòn tês Albanikês glṓssēs] (in Greek), Athens, page 128