prozhmoj

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin proximāre (to come near, approach), with a complicated semantic development; 'to get close' > 'to know intimately' > 'to slander'.[1] Equates to prozhëm +‎ -oj.

Verb

prozhmoj (aorist prozhmova, participle prozhmuar)

  1. to slander, libel

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “prozhmoj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 347

Further reading

  • prozhmoj”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006