ysht

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *awi-sta, from Proto-Indo-European *au̯ei (“bird”) and *stā (“to stand”). Originally meaning 'to foretell according to birds, to augur'. Compare Latin augurāre and auspicāre[1].

Verb

ysht (first-person singular past tense yshta, participle yshtur)

  1. to cast spells, to bewitch

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (2000) A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, Leiden: Brill, page 519
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