duhet

Albanian

Etymology

1. duhet (“it must, is needed, is necessarily; has to”) is the mediopassive form of active do (“it wants, needs, loves”) (Gheg variant don). All in 3rd pers. sg., indicative, present form. See dua (“I want, need, love”) for etymology.

   Compound of do (“want, need, love”) + -h- (mediopassive marker) + -et (“it (is)”) (personal suffix);

   thus "it is needed, it must, it has to" meaning its mediopassive form.

Possibly from *duh, from *dusga, methatesized form of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *dug-sa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ- (“to be ready, be sufficient”) (compare Lithuanian daũg (“much, many”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Saxon dōg (“to be suitable”), Greek τεύχω (téfcho, “to produce, make, build”), Slavic *dugь 'strength, power'.(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Alternatively a derivate of dua.

Verb

duhet

1. (modal auxiliary, defective) to do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate
2. it must
3. it has to
4. it is needed, necessarily