nguroj

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • nguros

Etymology

From gur (“stone”).[1] Alternatively a variant of hungëroj, from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to scream”). Compare Lithuanian gùrti (“shrill, shriek, scream”), Sanskrit जरते (járatē, “it rushes, sounds, crackles, shouts”).

Verb

nguroj (first-person singular past tense ngurova, participle nguruar)

  1. I harden, become stone
  2. I lock up, cause to isolate (people in a house)
  3. I yell, I howl

Conjugation

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 297
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