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humb

humb

Albanian

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Verb

humb ‎(first-person singular past tense humba, participle humbur)

  1. I lose, I misplace
  2. I get lost

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References

  1. ↑ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 47, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
  2. ↑ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “humb”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 152

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *skumba, nasal present from Proto-Indo-European *skeubʰ- (compare English shove, Lithuanian skùbti ‘to hurry’, Polish skubać ‘to pluck’). According to Barić Henrik Albano-Rumanische Studien I. 36-37 from Latin sūpō ‎(“to upset; to overturn”). [2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʰumb]

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