jetë
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)
Declension edit
Declension of jetë
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
të jetë
Verb edit
le të jetë
References edit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “jetë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 159
- ^ http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~bjoseph/publications/2006balkmetaphor.pdf