vjel
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *uell-, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃-(s-) (“to tear, seize upon”).[1] Cognate to |Latin vello (“to pluck, tug”),[2] Latvian veli, Lithuanian vẽlės (“the ghostly figures of the deceased”), Gothic wilwan (“to rob”), and Hittite [Term?] (/hullāi/, “fight, struggle”).
Verb
vjel (first-person singular past tense vola, participle vjelë)
- harvest, reap (cereals, profits), pick (cotton, fruit)
- (by extension) gather (items for an collection or anthology)
- (by extension) collect taxes
Derived terms
- përvjel
- vilas
- vjela
- vjelë
- vjelje
- vjelës
Related terms
- vjeshtë
- vile
References
- “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, J. Pokorny, 1959, Bern : Francke, p.1145
- 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 423