bjerr

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ber-, from Proto-Indo-European *bher- (“to strew, spread; fall”). Cognate to Lithuanian ber̃ti (“to strew”)[1].

Verb

bjerr (first-person singular past tense bora, participle bjerrë)

  1. to lose, forfeit

Derived terms

References
  1. Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 104
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