See also: вій, виј, and вий

Albanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

A case of a loaned verb being suppleted by inherited forms.

From Old Albanian vinj (I come), vjen (he comes), borrowed from Latin veniō. The past forms in erdh- are from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erǵʰ- and cognate with Ancient Greek ἔρχομαι (érkhomai).[1][2]

Verb edit

vij (aorist erdha, participle ardhur)

  1. to arrive
  2. to come

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 192–4, 266.
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “vij ~ vinj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 508

Czech edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

vij

  1. second-person singular imperative of vít

Serbo-Croatian edit

Verb edit

vij (Cyrillic spelling виј)

  1. second-person singular imperative of viti