ndrag
Albanian
Alternative forms
- ndragem (Tosk)
- ndragna (Gheg)
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *(a)n-draga, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“dregs, sediment”), likely of non-Indo-European origin.[1][2]
Verb
ndrag (first-person singular past tense ndrag, participle ndragur)
- to make/get filthy, dirty
- Synonym: fëlliq
Related terms
- dra
References
- 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 141
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*dragjō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 99: “*dʰragʰ-ieh₂-”