ngroh

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *grē-(h), 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 (a)n-.[1]

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
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