vjel

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Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *uell-, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *uel-(s-) (“to tear, seize upon”).[1] Cognate to Latin vello (“to pluck, tug”),[2] Latvian veli, Lithuanian vẽlės (“the ghostly figures of the deceased”), Gothic wilwan (“to rob”), and Hittite [Term?] (/⁠hullāi⁠/, “fight, struggle”).

Verb

vjel (aorist vola, participle vjelë)

  1. I pick (up), gather, pluck
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, J. Pokorny, 1959, Bern : Francke, p.1145
  2. ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 423
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