huaj

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ksōn(w)ja akin to Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign”), which according to Beekes is Pre-Greek.[1].

Noun

huaj (i huaj, e huaj)

  1. stranger
  2. foreigner
  3. alien

Verb

huaj

  1. Past tense of hua

References
  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ξένος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1034
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