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jam

Pronunciation: /ˈjam/

“jam” is an Albanian word. Its 8 meanings in English:

verb

  1. Indicates a quality or identity.
  2. Indicates location.
  3. to live, stay alive
  4. to be from, come from
  5. to support, agree with
  6. to happen, take place, occur
  7. there be
  8. Followed by gerunds, forms the present continuous.

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Albanian *esmi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“to be, exist”). The forms in qe- may derive from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn, revolve”), whence also Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō, “to be”).

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