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Albanian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Albanian *nemska, from Proto-Indo-European *nem (“to divide, to take, to arrange, to count”). Cognate to Greek νέμω (némo, “to divide”), Gothic niman (“to take”), Latin numerus (“member, element, number”), nummus (“coin, money”).[1] More and more replaced by the loanword numëroj.
Verb
njeh (aorist njeha, participle njehë)
- to count, consider
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From earlier *ɲœx, from Early Proto-Albanian *ɲɔxit, from an intermediate stage *ȷ́nākʰet, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱéti.[2]
Verb
njeh
- third-person singular present indicative of njoh
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “njeh”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 304
- ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 243