lëçit

Albanian

Alternative forms

• lëçis
• leçis — earlier

Etymology

Borrowed from South Slavic, compare dialectal Bulgarian лича́ (ličá, “to announce”).

Verb

lëçit (aorist lëçita, participle lëçitur) (archaic, transitive)

1. to read

   Synonym: lexoj

2. to announce, declare, publish, preach

   Synonyms: njoftoj, shpall, lajmëroj

Derived terms

• lëçitës
• lëçitje

 

References

• “lëçít”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 974a
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “leçis”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 239b
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “lëç-is”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 243a
• Meyer, G. (1891) “ľetšís”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 242

Further reading

• Ylli, Xhelal (1997) “leçis”, in Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350)‎^[2], volume 1. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 145b