tashti

• tani

Compound of tash (moment (now)) +‎ ti (-arily), cognate to Albanian tash (“now”), tashi (“id”), tesh (“id”) and ndashti (“at/in this moment”). From Proto-Albanian *to-su, locative form of pronominal stem Proto-Albanian *to- (resp. Proto-Albanian *ta ̊).^[1] From Proto-Indo-European *to- (“it”). Cognate to Lithuanian tadà (“then, thereupon”) and Sanskrit तदा (ta-dā́, “then”).

See Albanian tash for more.

• IPA^(key): [taˈʃti]

tashti

1. now, currently, at present, presently, just now, this moment, from now on; momentarily

   Synonyms: tash, tashi, tesh, tani; menjëherë

2. nowadays, today

   Synonym: sot

3. (as a particle, interjection) so, well (to attract the attention of others); so, then, hence, thus (conclusion sense)

   Synonyms: atëherë, kështu, pra, prandaj, pas

• qëtash (“right now, immediately, right/straight away”)
• ndashti (“at/in this moment”)
• ashtu (“so; as it were”), kështu (“so, thus”)

• ni (“now”)
• nani (“now”)
• nu (“when”)
• nime (“real(ly)”), përnime (“for real, really”)

• “tashti”, 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
• Newmark, L. (1999) “tashti”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]