përmbys

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • përmbyt

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *per-ambi-uptja related to përmbi and ultimately to mbys. The second element *uptja is cognate with Greek ὑπὸ (hupò, under), Sanskrit उप (úpa, towards, near to) and Gothic uf (under).[1]

Verb

përmbys (aorist përmbysa, participle përmbysur)

  1. (transitive) to flood, to make sink (boat)
  2. to overthrow

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 320-321

Further reading

  • përmbys”, 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) “përmbys”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[3]