shkurtoj

Albanian

Etymology

From shkurt +‎ -oj; hence shkurtoj (to cut; make short). Alternatively borrowed from Late Latin excurtō, from Latin curtō; cf. Romanian scurta, Aromanian shcurtedz.

Verb

shkurtoj (transitive)

  1. to cut; to make shorter
  2. to abbreviate, abridge, truncate
  3. to prune, trim
  4. to curtail

Conjugation

Further reading

  • shkurtoj”, 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) “shkurtoj”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[2]