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Albanian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *saettare (“to shoot arrows”), from Latin sagittāre.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
shitoj (aorist shitova, participle shituar) (transitive, northern Gheg)
- (third person, mythology) a fate (zanë or orë punishes, petrifies or paralyzes a person when they cause them disturbance
- Të shitoftë zana! ― May the fate kill you! (optative, curse)
- (regional) to strike, smite, hit, afflict, wound
- (regional, figurative) to injure, shoot to death
- (intransitive, figurative) to get enraged, mad
- Synonym: shkalloj
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References
- ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “shitoj”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1387
Further reading
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “shitoj”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 477
- “shitoj”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980