bjerr
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *ber-, from Proto-Indo-European *bher- (“to strew, spread; fall”). Cognate to Lithuanian ber̃ti (“to strew”)[1].
Verb
bjerr (first-person singular past tense bora, participle bjerrë)
- to lose, forfeit
Derived terms
- borë
Related terms
- birrem
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 104