mbloj
Albanian
Alternative forms
- vloj
- (Tosk, Arvanitic, Arbëreshë): mblonj, plonj
Etymology
From archaic and dialectal mblonj, compound of preverb *an- + dialectal plonj, from Proto-Albanian *plānjō, nasalized from earlier *plā-je/o-, denominative from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- ‘fill, full’.[1]
Verb
mbloj (first-person singular past tense mblova, participle mbluar)
- to fill
- to betroth
Derived terms
- mblesë
Related terms
- plotë, plim
Synonyms
- mbush
References
- Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013), 233, 982.