Albanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From gur (stone).[1] Alternatively a variant of hungëroj, from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (to scream). Compare Lithuanian gùrti (shrill, shriek, scream), Sanskrit जरते (járatē, it rushes, sounds, crackles, shouts).

Verb edit

nguroj (aorist ngurova, participle nguruar)

  1. to harden, become stone
  2. to lock up, cause to isolate (people in a house)
  3. to yell, to howl

Conjugation edit

Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “nguroj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 297