njeh

Albanian
Alternative forms
  • njef

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *nemska, from Proto-Indo-European *nem 'to divide, to take, to arrange, to count'. Cognate to Greek νέμω (némo, “to divide”), Gothic niman (niman, “to take”), Latin numerus (“member, element, number”), nummus (“coin, money”)[1]. More and more replaced by the loanword numëroj.

Verb

njeh (first-person singular past tense njeha, participle njehë)

  1. I count, consider
Derived terms

References
  1. A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p.304
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