njeh

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Albanian *nemska, from Proto-Indo-European *nem (to divide, to take, to arrange, to count). Cognate to Greek νέμω (némo, to divide), Gothic niman (to take), Latin numerus (member, element, number), nummus (coin, money).[1] More and more replaced by the loanword numëroj.

Verb

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njeh (aorist njeha, participle njehë)

  1. to count, consider
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From earlier *ɲœx, from Early Proto-Albanian *ɲɔxit, from an intermediate stage *ȷ́nākʰet, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱéti.[2]

Verb

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njeh

  1. third-person singular present indicative of njoh

References

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “njeh”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 304
  2. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 243