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laj

laj

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • lâj (Gheg)

Verb

laj (first-person singular past tense lava, participle larë)

  1. to wash
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Etymology 2

From older and dialectal lanj, from Proto-Albanian *launja, from Proto-Indo-European *leuh₃- ‘release’ (compare English lose, Latin luere ‘to release from debt’, Ancient Greek λύω (lúō) ‘to untie, set free; dissolve’).

Alternative forms

  • lanj (South Tosk, Arbëreshë, Arvanitic)

Verb

laj (first-person singular past tense lava, participle larë)

  1. to pay off a debt, pay up
  2. to redeem, clear, acquit

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), laj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 210
  2. Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien (Amsterdam: Rodopoi, 1997), p.230

Lojban

Rafsi

laj

  1. rafsi of klaji.