gërmoj

Albanian

Etymology

Uncertain. Either:

  • a variant of gërmih,
  • a denominative verb derived from gërmë (letter) in its otherwise unattested meaning 'line, scratch'; it would have originally meant 'to scratch lines', and thus from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma).[1]

Verb

gërmoj (aorist gërmova, participle gërmuar)

  1. to hoe, dig

Conjugation

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “gërmoj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 115
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