dhashë

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • dhata

Etymology

Aorist form of jap. From Proto-Albanian *(e)ðaśa, from earlier *edasa, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (to give). A suppletive verb, it occurs only in the non-present paradigm. Dhae and dhe come from Proto-Indo-European *h₁e-dh₃(e)s-s.[1]

Verb

dhashë

  1. first-person singular aorist of jap

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “dhashë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 154