përmbys

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • përmbyt

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *per-ambi-uptja related to përmbi and ultimately to mbys. The second element *uptja is cognate with Greek ὑπὸ (hupò, “under”), Sanskrit उप (úpa, “towards, near to”) and Gothic uf (“under”).[1]

Verb

përmbys (aorist përmbyta, participle përmbysur)

  1. to flood, to make sink (boat)'
  2. to overthrow

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 320-321
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