ngjesh
Albanian
Etymology
- From Proto-Albanian * ̊gneś-, from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to compress”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic гнєсти (gnesti, “to press on”). Formed using the intensive prefix (a)n-.
Verb
ngjesh (first-person singular past tense ngjesha, participle ngjeshur)
- to press on, compress, knead (dough)
Related terms
- gjesh