njeh

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • njef

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *nemska, from Proto-Indo-European *nem (“to divide, to take, to arrange, to count”). Cognate to Greek νέμω (némo, “to divide”), Gothic niman (“to take”), Latin numerus (“member, element, number”), nummus (“coin, money”).[1] More and more replaced by the loanword numëroj.

Verb

njeh (aorist njeha, participle njehë)

  1. to count, consider
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From earlier *ɲœx, from Early Proto-Albanian *ɲɔxit, from an intermediate stage *ȷ́nākʰet, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱéti.[2]

Verb

njeh

  1. third-person singular present indicative of njoh

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “njeh”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 304
  2. Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 243
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