gjezdis

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish گزمك (gezmek, to walk about, to rove, stroll, wander).[1][2][3] Alternatively, Orel proposes an early borrowing from South Slavic, whence Bulgarian яздьа (jazdʹa) and Serbo-Croatian jezditi.[4]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɟezˈdis/
  • Rhymes: -is

Verb

gjezdis (aorist gjezdisa, participle gjezdisur) (colloquial)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to stroll, amble
    Synonym: shëtit

Declension

Derived terms

  • gjezdisje

References

  1. Miklosich, Franz (1884), gézméḱ”, in Die türkischen Elemente in den südost- und osteuropäischen Sprachen (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Classe) (in German), volume 34, Wien: In Commission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn
  2. Meyer, G. (1891), ģezdis”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 139
  3. Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), gjezdis(em)”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 173
  4. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), gjezdis”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 134
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