thelb

• singular: thelp (pl. thelpinj), thalb, thalp
• plural: thelbe, thelba, thalba, thelbna

From older and dialectal thalb, from Proto-Albanian *tsalba, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”) (compare Ancient Greek κέλυφος (kéluphos, “shell, pod”), Old English heolstor (“darkness”)).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈθɛlp]

thelb m (plural thelpinj, definite thelbi, definite plural thelpinjtë)

1. kernel (of nut), meat (of walnut)
2. core, pith, stone (of fruit)
3. clove (of garlic)
4. (botany) cotyledon
5. (figurative) core, essence, heart

• thelbësor
• thelbor
• thelpi