sprigiur

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Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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spri- +‎ giur,[1] or perhaps even from a Balkan Vulgar Latin construction composed of super or supra and iūrō, jūrō. Compare Megleno-Romanian sprijur, spridžur.[2] No directly equivalent word was preserved in Daco-Romanian; however cf. the now archaic and regional prejura and related Aromanian prigiur, prigiurari (cf. also Albanian përgjëroj).

Verb

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sprigiur (past participle sprigiuratã)

  1. swear (on the Bible), take an oath
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