ulmej

Albanian

Etymology

From an unattested *ulm, from Proto-Albanian *ulg(a)ma, from Proto-Indo-European *welg-. Cognate to Old High German welc (“wet”), Lithuanian vìlgyti (“to make wet”), Latvian valgums (“wetness”), Proto-Slavic *vьlgъkъ (“wet”).[1]

Verb

ulmej (aorist ulmeva, participle ulmuar)

  1. to make wet

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “ulmej”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 485
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