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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from South Slavic, compare dialectal Bulgarian лича́ (ličá, “to announce”).
Verb
lëçit (aorist lëçita, participle lëçitur) (archaic, transitive)
- to read
- Synonym: lexoj
- to announce, declare, publish, preach
- Synonyms: njoftoj, shpall, lajmëroj
Derived terms
References
- “lëçít”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language], 1980, page 974a
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “leçis”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 239b
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “lëç-is”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 243a
- Meyer, G. (1891) “ľetšís”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 242
Further reading
- Ylli, Xhelal (1997) “leçis”, in Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350), volume 1. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 145b