vetë f (indefinite plural vetes, definite singular vetja, definite plural veten)
From Proto-Albanian *(s)wetā, from Proto-Indo-European *su̯e-t- ‘self; one's own’ (compare Latvian svešs ‘foreign’, Russian сват (svat) ‘matchmaker; father-in-law’, Ancient Greek (ϝ)έτης ((w)étēs) ‘relative, friend’), from *séu̯e. Related to u.