Reconstruction:Proto-Albanian/banja
Proto-Albanian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-n-yé-ti, from *bʰeh₂- (“shine”) (compare Greek φαίνομαι (faínomai, “to seem, appear”)),[1] Sanskrit भाति (bhāti, “to shine”), Old Irish bán (“white”).[2]
Verb
edit*banja
Descendants
edit- Proto-Albanian: *dis-banja
- Albanian: bënj
References
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “bëj ~ bâj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 22
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “zbej”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 520