hëngra

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • hangra (Gheg, Old Tosk)
  • hata (Gheg)
  • hoer (Old Gheg)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *gur-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow”). Cognate to Sanskrit गिरति (giráti, “to swallow”). From hangura, a suppletive verb, which occurs only in the aorist, the participle and in the tempora and modi based on these stems.[1] Structurally close to Hittite [Term?] (/tangarant/, “not having eaten”), Lithuanian kanká (“pain”), Old High German hungar (“hunger”).

Verb

hëngra (first-person singular past tense hëngra, participle ngrënë)

  1. I ate

References
  1. Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 297
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