pjetem

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *peta (“to be ruptured”), related to Greek πετάννυμι (petánnymi, “to widen”), Latin pateō (“to be open”).[1]

Verb

pjetem (aorist u pjeta, participle pjetur)

  1. to be ruptured, to have hernia

Derived terms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “pjetem”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 331
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