See also: jete and jeté

Albanian edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Albanian *eta, related to the isolated group (substrate) of Greek ἐτεός (eteós, true, real), ἐτάζω (etázō, to test).[1] Related to the participial form of jam and to eshë (period of time, span, space). See also Latin aetas (whence Aromanian etã), considered by some to be the source of the Albanian word,[2] but this is uncertain.

Noun edit

jetë f (plural jetë, definite jeta, definite plural jetët)

  1. life
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Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

të jetë

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive of jam

Verb edit

le të jetë

  1. third-person singular present jussive of jam

References edit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “jetë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 159
  2. ^ http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~bjoseph/publications/2006balkmetaphor.pdf