humb

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *skumba, nasal present from Proto-Indo-European *skeubʰ- (compare English shove, Lithuanian skùbti ‘to hurry’, Polish skubać ‘to pluck’).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ʰumb]

Verb

humb (first-person singular past tense humba, participle humbur)

  1. I lose, I misplace
  2. I get lost

Derived terms
  1. Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 47, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
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