pushtoj

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • poshtroj, pështroj (dialectal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *potestāre, from Latin potestās (“power, ability”), whence Albanian pushtet (“power”).[1] Cognate with Medieval Latin potestare (“to control”), Old French poëster (“to exercise power, to govern, to dominate; to put in power”), Italian podestare.

The dialectal forms poshtroj, pështroj are influenced by shtroj.[1]

Verb

pushtoj (first-person singular past tense pushtova, participle pushtuar)

  1. to conquer

Synonyms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “pushtet”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 352
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