Albanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

  • Orel propeses a borrowing from Latin subjugāre, with the loss of two intervocalic voiced stops.[1]
  • Possibly a derivative of shuj (to be silent, to hush), thus originally meaning to 'bring to silence, to suppress', cognate to Ancient Greek σβέννυμι (sbénnumi, to quench).(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

shuaj (aorist shova, participle shuajtur)

  1. to extinguish
  2. to erase, to delete
  3. to quell

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shuaj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 445