mbloj

Albanian
Alternative forms
  • vloj
  • (Tosk, Arvanitic, Arbëreshë): mblonj, plonj

Etymology

From archaic and dialectal mblonj, compound of preverb *an- + dialectal plonj, from Proto-Albanian *plānjō, nasalized from earlier *plā-je/o-, denominative from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- ‘fill, full’.[1]

Verb

mbloj (first-person singular past tense mblova, participle mbluar)

  1. to fill
  2. to betroth

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References
  1. Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013), 233, 982.
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