Etymology

fier

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Today it means: A city and municipality in southwestern Albania, located east of the Adriatic Sea on the river Gjanica, just south of its confluence with the river Seman; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality. Full definition →

Albanian Fier ← Italian fiera
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The story

  1. Italian · borrowed fromfiera“trade fair”
  2. Albanian · borrowed fromFier
  3. English todayFier

Borrowed from Albanian Fier, from fier (“fern”). Alternatively borrowed from Italian fiera (“trade fair”) due to the arrival of Venetian merchants during the Renaissance.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.