gërdhij

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • gërdhist

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *gradīnja, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrendʰ- (compare English grind, Lithuanian gréndžiu ‘to scrape, scratch’).[1]

Verb

gërdhij (first-person singular past tense gërdhiva, participle gërdhirë)

  1. to scratch

References
  1. A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill, Leiden 2000, pp. 251
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