rroj

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • (Arvanite) rronj
  • (Gheg) rrnoj, rnoj [1]

Etymology

From dialectal rronj, from Proto-Albanian *rānja, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁-; akin to Lithuanian róti ‘to cope, be ready’.[2]

Verb

rroj (first-person singular past tense rrova, participle rrojta)

  1. to stay alive, survive
  2. to reside, live, dwell

References
  1. Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 118, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
  2. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 388.
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