prej

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *prei-, from Proto-Indo-European *per- 'to strike, beat'. Cognate to Lithuanian per̃ti (“to strike, beat, to hit”).

Verb

prej (first-person singular past tense preva, participle prerë)

  1. to hew, cut, chop
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *prei, from Proto-Indo-European *prō 'forward, in front of, before', close to Greek πρωΐ (proḯ, “early, in the morning”), and Old High German fruoi (“id”)[1].

Preposition

prej

  1. from

References

  1. ↑ Orel, Vladimir (2000) A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, Leiden: Brill, page 343
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