mëshel

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • mbërshel, mshel, mëshil

Etymology

From older and dialectal mbërshel, which contains a negating prefix Proto-Albanian *ana-pra-, attached to Proto-Indo-European *eǵʰs-sélǵ-e/o- (“to open”), which originally meant "to let go, release".[1]

Verb

mëshel (aorist mëshela, participle mëshelur)

  1. (regional) to close

References

  1. ^ Demiraj, Bardhyl et al. (2021), “mëshel”, in DPEWA. Digitales Philologisch-Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altalbanischen [DPEWA. Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of Old Albanian]
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