dëgjoj

See also: degjoj

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • ndëgjoj, ndëgoj, dëlgoj, dëlgonj, diligonj, ngjoj
  • ndigoj, ngoj (Kosovo dialect)
  • endiglo (Çamëria dialect)

Etymology

Aphetic form of dialectal ndëgjoj, from Old Albanian ëndiglonj (Buzuku), from Latin intellegere (“to understand, perceive”).[1][2]

Verb

dëgjoj (first-person singular past tense dëgjova, participle dëgjuar)

  1. to hear; listen to
  2. to obey, heed, pay attention to
  3. to understand

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 62.
  2. ↑ Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013), 191.
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