Where does “perëndi” come from?
perëndi (Albanian) comes from Albanian perëndoj, from Latin parento, from Latin parēns, from Latin pariō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé- — he, she.
perëndi (Albanian): God; god, deity
Ancestry of “perëndi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Albanian | perëndoj | I fall; I decline, pass; I set |
| 2 | Latin | parento | I make a sacrifice in honour of the dead; I... |
| 3 | Latin | parēns | — |
| 4 | Latin | pariō | — |
| 5 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 9 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |