djathë

• djath, gjath — southwestern Gheg
• dith, ndith — Arvanitika

From Proto-Albanian *dedi, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰh₁i (“milk”) (compare Old Prussian dadan, Sanskrit दधि (dádhi, “sour milk”)).

djathë m (plural djathëra, definite djathi, definite plural djathërat)

1. cheese

   djathë i bardhë ― white cheese

   djathë baxhoje ― skim-milk cheese with holes

   djathë i marrë ― skim-milk cheese

   djathë i pamarrë ― whole-milk cheese

   djathë peshe ― hard cheese

• Bardhi, Frang (1635), Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 10: “caseus — diaξe”

• “djathë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006