rrjedh

Albanian

Etymology

Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *Hreǵʰ- (to flow water), and cognate with Latin rigō (to irrigate, moisten), Proto-Germanic *regną (rain).[1]

Verb

rrjedh (aorist rrodha, participle rrjedhur)

  1. to flow, stream
  2. to leak, trickle, drip

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*regna-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 408

Further reading

  • Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: []] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[2] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 352
  • rrjedh”, 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]‎[3], 1980