From an earlier shërbenj (third person singular shërben), from Proto-Albanian *śerbi̯ɔnit, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *serbiō, from Latin serviō.[1]
shërbej (aorist shërbeva, participle shërbyer)
- to serve
- ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 192