vij

See also: вій, виј, and вий

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

A case of an inherited verb being suppleted by a loanword.

From Old Albanian vinj (I come), vjen (he comes), borrowed from Latin veniō. The past forms in erdh- are from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erǵʰ- and cognate with Ancient Greek ἔρχομαι (érkhomai).[1][2]

Verb

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

  1. I arrive
  2. I come

Conjugation

References

  1. Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 192–4, 266.
  2. Orel, Vladimir (1998), vij ~ vinj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 508
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