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2024
ngjesh
ngjesh
Albanian
Verb
ngjesh
(
first-person singular past tense
ngjesha
,
participle
ngjeshur
)
to
press
on
,
compress
,
knead
(dough)
Related terms
gjesh
Etymology
From
Proto-Albanian
* ̊gneś-
, from
Proto-Indo-European
*gen-
(
“
to compress
”
)
. Cognate with
Old Church Slavonic
гнєсти
(
gnesti
,
“
to press on
”
)
. Formed using the intensive prefix
(a)n-
.
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