quaj

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • quej (Gheg), kluanj (Cham, Arbëreshë, Arvanitic)

Etymology

From Old Albanian kluoj (Buzuku), from Proto-Albanian *klāusnja, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlous- ‘to hear’ (compare English listen, Lithuanian kláusti ‘to ask’, Serbo-Croatian slȕšati).

Verb

quaj (first-person singular past tense quajta, participle quajtur)

  1. to call, name

Derived terms

  • shquaj
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