lehăi

Romanian

Etymology

Uncertain.[1] Possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of the Balkans term closely akin to Albanian leh (“to bark; to blabber”).[2]

Verb

a lehăi (third-person singular present lehăește, past participle lehăit) 4th conj.

  1. to prattle, babble, blather, gabble (talk much and pointlessly)
    Synonyms: flecări, pălăvrăgi, sporovăi, trăncăni, îndruga

Conjugation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References
  1. lehăi in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
  2. Katičić, Radoslav (1976) Ancient Languages of the Balkans, page 152
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