Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

vdes

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads
See also: Vdes.

Albanian

Etymology

A formation in -s of Proto-Albanian *awa-deja, from earlier *dej, continuing Proto-Indo-European *dʰew-. Compare Old Church Slavonic давити (daviti, suffocate), Gothic 𐌰𐍆𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌹𐌸𐍃 (afdauiþs, troubled), Old Irish díth (end, death), Avestan 𐬛𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬌𐬛𐬍 (duuaidī, we press), Latin fūnus (death) and English die.

Pronunciation

Verb

vdes (aorist vdiqa, participle vdekur)

  1. to die (used only for humans and bees)

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • vdekatar m, vdekatare f
  • vdekje
  • vdekjeprurës
  • vdekshëm
  • vdekshmëri

See also

Further reading

  • vdes”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language], 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999), “vdes”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary
Remove ads

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads