bëj

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From archaic and dialectal bënj (to make appear; do, make), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *banja, from *bʰh₂-nio-, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (shine) (compare Greek φαίνομαι (faínomai, to seem, appear).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

bëj (aorist bëra, participle bërë)

  1. to do, make
  2. (dialectal, old) to appear, make appear

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “bëj ~ bâj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 22