pështyj

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Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *pistūnja, cognate with Latin spuō and Greek πτύω (ptýo).[1] The term could be a pë- prefixed formation from shtyj (to push).

Verb

pështyj (aorist pështyva, participle pështyrë)

  1. to spit out, smoke out, give off
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 324