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 (aorist ngurova, participle nguruar)

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

Conjugation

References

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