ngroh

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *engrāja, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (warm, hot). Cognate to Old Church Slavonic грѣти (grěti, to warm). The form may have entered the class of Albanian inchoatives in -sk-. The anlaut points to a formation with the prefix *en-.[1][2]

Verb

ngroh (aorist ngroha, participle ngrohur)

  1. to warm, heat

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • ngrohtë

References

  1. ^ Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: []] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 298
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “ngroh ~ ngrof”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 296

Further reading

  • ngroh”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2], 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “ngroh”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[3]