blej
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
From earlier *ble, cognate to Lithuanian blènst (“to see badly; to look”) and other Baltic cognates[1] (compare Latvian blendu (“have poor eye-sight, to be poor-sighted”)). The intermediate semantic development could have been 'to buy off, corrupt, cheat'. Orel considers it a borrowing, from Vulgar Latin ablevāre (“to lift up, relieve (from)”).[2]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
blej (aorist bleva, participle blerë) (Standard, Tosk)
blej (aorist bleva, participle blenë) (Gheg)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Çabej, E. 1976a. Studime Gjuhësore I, Studime Etimologjike në Fushë të Shqipes, A-O. Prishtinë: Rilindja, p.71
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “blej”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 29