shuaj

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

  • Orel propeses a borrowing from Latin subjugāre, with the loss of two intervocalic voiced stops.[1]
  • Possibly a derivative of shuj (to be silent, to hush), thus originally meaning to 'bring to silence, to suppress', cognate to Ancient Greek σβέννυμι (sbénnumi, to quench).(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʃʊaj]

Verb

shuaj (aorist shova, participle shuar) (transitive)

  1. to extinguish
    Synonym: fik
  2. to erase, to delete
  3. to quell

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shuaj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 445

Further reading

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