erdha

Albanian

Etymology

Older ardh, aorist of vij. Rebuilt from 3rd pers. erdh, with i-mutation from *arði, from Proto-Albanian *ardze, with Osthoff’s shortening from earlier *ērdz-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁r̥ǵʰ-, weak perfective stem of *h₁erǵʰ- ‘to go up, rise’.[1] Close to Greek έρχομαι (érchomai, “come”), aorist ήρθα (írtha, “I came”), Middle Irish eirgg (“go!”), German ragen (“to rise”)[2].

Verb

erdha (first-person singular past tense erdha, participle ardhur)

  1. I came, arrived
  2. I originated

Derived terms

References
  1. Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 266.
  2. Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 300.
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