blej

Albanian

Etymology

First attested in 1497. The short nasal vowel in the 3rd sg. blê "to buy" and the long nasal in the 1st-3rd sg. blẽ "id." point to a Common Albanian *blên, inherited from Proto-Albanian *blêna/i-, from Pre-Proto-Albanian *blena/e-, from either Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰloi̯éi̯e/o- (“to buy”) or Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥nh₂énti (“to buy”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blɛj/, /blej/

Verb

blej (aorist bleva, participle blerë) (Standard, Tosk)
blej (aorist bleva, participle blenë) (Gheg)

  1. to purchase; to cheat; to barter

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Demiraj, Bardhyl et al. (2021), “blej”, in DPEWA. Digitales Philologisch-Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altalbanischen [DPEWA. Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of Old Albanian]
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