pushtoj
Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *potestāre, from Latin potestās (“power, ability”), whence Albanian pushtet (“power”).[1] Cognate with Medieval Latin potestare (“to control”), Old French poëster (“to exercise power, to govern, to dominate; to put in power”), Italian podestare.
The dialectal forms poshtroj, pështroj are influenced by shtroj.[1]
Verb
[edit]pushtoj (aorist pushtova, participle pushtuar)
- to conquer
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “pushtet”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 352