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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from South Slavic. Compare Bulgarian се сели (se seli, “settle down”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
selit (aorist selita, participle selitur)
- to plant, cultivate
- to colonise, settle
- Synonym: kolonizoj
- to instill
Derived terms
References
- ^ Ylli, Xhelal (1997) “selit”, in Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350), volume 1. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 233
Further reading
- “selit”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980