gojë

See also: goje and ĝoje

Albanian

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Alternative forms

• golë
• gjojë, gjëjë — middle Gheg
• goglie — old Tosk

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Albanian *gougula (“mouth”), from *gau (“speak, emit a sound”) + *gula (“throat”), from *gʷl-, zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡojə/

Noun

gojë f (plural gojë, definite goja)

1. mouth
   • 1483, Tommaso de Mezzo, Epirota (overall work in Latin), Venice, act 11, verse 803^[1]:

     Dramburi te clofto goglie!

     [Trëmburë të qoftë, o gojë!]

     May your mouth tremble!

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gojë	goja	gojë	gojët
accusative		gojën
dative	gojeje	gojës	gojëve	gojëve
ablative			gojësh

Declension of gojë

References

1. Bardhyl Demiraj (2012) “La maledizione dell'epirota (1483)”, in Res Albanicae (in Italian), number 1, →ISSN, pages 133–143

Further reading

• “gojë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
• “gojë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Newmark, L. (1999) “gojë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎