shuaj

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

  • Orel propeses a borrowing from Latin subjugāre, with the loss of two intervocalic voiced stops.
  • Possibly a derivative of shuj (to be silent, to hush), thus originally meaning to 'bring to silence, to suppress', cognate to Ancient Greek σβέννυμι (sbénnumi, to quench).(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

Verb

shuaj (aorist shova, participle shuajtur)

  1. to extinguish
  2. to erase, to delete
  3. to quell

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shuaj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 445