dredh

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *drē̆δ-, from Proto-Indo-European *dreǵʰ-. Cognate to Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, to turn, revolve),[1] Gothic dragan (dragan, to draw, accumulate, take on), English drag.

Verb

dredh (first-person singular past tense drodha, participle dredhur)

  1. to revolve, turn
  2. to wind
  3. to twist

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 143
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