mbështet

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ambhi-stata, based on *stata, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂tós (standing). Compare Sanskrit स्थित (sthitá), Greek στατός (statós, standing), Latin status (id).[1]

Verb

mbështet (first-person singular past tense mbështeta, participle mbështetur)

  1. to stand, to prop
  2. to lean against, support

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 168
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