mbush

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Albanian

Etymology

From Old Albanian ëmbush, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *en-busa,[1] or *am-buśś-it,[2] from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bu-n-s-, nasalized weak stem of *beus- (“to blow up, puff out, swell”) (compare Ancient Greek βυνέω (bunéō, “to stuff”), Old High German pfoso (“bag”)).

Noun

mbush (aorist mbusha, participle mbushur)

  1. to fill, stuff
  2. to replenish
  3. to load a gun
  4. to complete a period of time
  5. to backfill (a plant) to protect the roots
  6. (colloquial) to fulfill, comply with, satisfy

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mbush”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 253
  2. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 234
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