ligj

Albanian

Etymology

Singularized plural of earlier *leg, *lig. Either borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin lēx, lēgem (“law”) (compare Romanian lege), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, to speak”), or from the same root of Lithuanian lygùs (“equal”) and Old Prussian līgan (“court”), as substantiated by ligje (“mourning, dirge”).

Noun

ligj m (plural ligje, definite ligji, definite plural ligjet)

  1. law
  2. statute

Declension

Declension of ligj
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ligj ligji ligje ligjet
accusative ligjin
dative ligji ligjit ligjeve ligjeve
ablative ligjesh

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “ligj”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
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