Albanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin unguere (to anoint, smear with oil).[1][2] Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *en-glejo.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

ngjyej (aorist ngjeva, participle ngjyer)

  1. to dip, plunge
  2. to dye
  3. to color, paint
  4. (figurative) to grease palms, arrange things

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “ngjyej”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 300
  2. ^ Guillaume Bonnet, Les mots latins de l’albanais (Paris: L’Harmattan, 1998), 191, 300.