kaltëroj

Albanian

Alternative forms

• kalthëronj — Calabria

Etymology

From kaltër (“sky blue”) +‎ -oj.

Verb

kaltëroj (aorist kaltërova, participle kaltëruar)

1. (intransitive) to become blue
   • 1873, Girolamo de Rada, Canti di Milosao, canto 1, page 14, lines 2–3:

     ui tὺ rii ndy deitit / caλθyruar te dit e ree

     [ujë të ri ndë dejtit kalthëruar te ditë e re]

     new waters in the sea became blue in the new day

2. (transitive) to make blue

Further reading

• “kaltëroj”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• Meyer, G. (1891) “káľtεrε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, pages 170–171