Where does “shmenjem” come from?

shmenjem (Albanian) comes from Albanian mej, from Proto-Albanian mōja.

shmenjem (Albanian): to get satiated from laughing, eating, crying, etc

Definitions

  1. to get satiated from laughing, eating, crying, etc

Ancestry of “shmenjem”, step by step

shmenjem traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Albanian mej

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1AlbanianmejI reduce, make fade, extinguish; I fail
2Proto-Albanianmōja—

via Albanian sh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Albanianshdis
Every word from Proto-Albanian mōja →Every word from Albanian mej →