aftë

See also: afte

Albanian

Etymology

From aft, from Proto-Albanian *aweita, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (compare Ancient Greek ἀυτμή (autmḗ, “breath”), Welsh awel (“breeze”)),[1] meaning to have will, to have power or breath to do something. Alternatively from Latin aptus.[2][3][4]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈaftə/

Adjective

i aftë (feminine plural të afta)

  1. able, proficient, skilled

Derived terms

References
  1. Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 71
  2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “aftë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 2
  3. Topalli, K. (2017) “aftë”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 77
  4. Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 211

Further reading
  • “aftë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “aftë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎
  • “aftë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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