blegërin
Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Albanian *bleg ̊, from Proto-Indo-European *b(h)le- (“to bleat”). Cognate to Ancient Greek βληχάομαι (blēkháomai, “to bleat”).[1] Also compare Old Church Slavonic блѣꙗти (blějati, “bleat”), Old English blagettan, blǣgettan (“cry”). An onomatopoeic root, enlarged with the suffix -ëró/í-.
Verb
[edit]blegërin (aorist blegëriti, participle blegëritë)
- to bleat
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 104