pëlqej

Albanian

Etymology

From earlier pëlqenj (third person singular pëlqen), from Proto-Albanian *plakjɔnit, borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin placeō.[1] Compare Romanian plăcea, Italian piacere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pəlˈcɛj/

Verb

pëlqej (aorist pëlqeva, participle pëlqyer)

  1. to like
  2. to accept
  3. to enjoy
  4. to favour

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 191.

Further reading

  • pëlqej”, 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]‎[1], 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “pëlqej”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[2]