ngjesh
Albanian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian * ̊gneś-, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to compress”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic гнєсти (gnesti, “to press on”). Formed using the intensive prefix (a)n-.
Verb
ngjesh (aorist ngjesha, participle ngjeshur)