hëngra
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *gur-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow”). Cognate to Sanskrit गिरति (giráti, “to swallow”). From hangura, a suppletive verb, which occurs only in the aorist, the participle and in the tempora and modi based on these stems.[1] Structurally close to Hittite [Term?] (/tangarant/, “not having eaten”), Lithuanian kanká (“pain”), Old High German hungar (“hunger”).
Verb
hëngra (aorist hëngra, participle ngrënë)
- to ate
Related terms
References
- Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 297
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