ndërtoj

Albanian

Etymology

From archaic *ndërtokë (underground), the first part ndër- (under) from *n̥dʰér and the second part tokë (land, ground), with an original meaning of "to lay foundations". Orel suggests a contraction of Romance *directare, but semantic problems and the prefix ndër- makes the theory unlikely. Matzinger claims it has no known etymology[1]

Verb

ndërtoj (aorist ndërtova, participle ndërtuar)

  1. to build

Inflection

References

  1. Matasevic, R. (2019). A grammatical sketch of Albanian for students of Indo-European. Zadar.
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