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ul

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

verb

  1. to sit down, put (someone/something) on a seat (or on the ground)
  2. to lower, put down
  3. to bend, tilt down
  4. to seat; land an airplane
  5. to decrease, reduce, diminish
  6. to close
  7. to pull down (a skirt or shirt, clothes in general)
  8. to demote; degrade, debase

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *wala, from *wol-o-, o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“press together”) (compare Lithuanian valýti (“to clean”), Ancient Greek εἰλέω (eiléō, “press together”)). Variant unj is from *ulnj, from Proto-Albanian *walnja, a causative of the previous.

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