kaltëroj

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From kaltër (“sky blue”) +‎ -oj.

Verb

kaltëroj (aorist kaltërova, participle kaltëruar)

  1. (intransitive) to become blue
    • 1873, Girolamo de Rada, Canti di Milosao, canto 1, page 14, lines 2–3:
      ui tὺ rii ndy deitit / caλθyruar te dit e ree
      [ujë të ri ndë dejtit kalthëruar te ditë e re]
      new waters in the sea became blue in the new day
  2. (transitive) to make blue

Further reading
  • “kaltëroj”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
  • Meyer, G. (1891) “káľtεrε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, pages 170–171
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