kaltëroj
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Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From kaltër (“sky blue”) + -oj.
Verb
[edit]kaltëroj (aorist kaltërova, participle kaltëruar)
- (intransitive) to become blue
- 1873, Girolamo de Rada, Canti di Milosao, canto 1, page 14, lines 2–3:
- ui tὺ rii ndy deitit / caλθyruar te dit e ree
- [ujë të ri ndë dejtit kalthëruar te ditë e re]
- new waters in the sea became blue in the new day
- (transitive) to make blue
Further reading
[edit]- “kaltëroj”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe[1] (in Albanian), 1980
- Meyer, G. (1891) “káľtεrε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, , pages 170–171