pushtoj
Albanian
Alternative forms
- poshtroj, pështroj (dialectal)
Etymology
Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *potestāre, from 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)
- to conquer
Synonyms
- sundoj
References
- Orel, Vladimir (1998), “pushtet”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 352