ngroh

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *engrāja, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”). Cognate to Old Church Slavonic грѣти (grěti, “to warm”). The form may have entered the class of Albanian inchoatives in -sk-. The anlaut points to a formation with the prefix (e)n-.[1][2]

Verb

ngroh (first-person singular past tense ngroha, participle ngrohur)

  1. to warm, heat

Derived terms
  • ngrohtë

References
  1. Albanische Etymologien (Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz), Bardhyl Demiraj, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 7; Amsterdam - Atlanta 1997
  2. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “ngroh ~ ngrof”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 296
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