huaj

• huej, uej — Gheg
• huoj, uoj — Tosk
• goj — Arbëresh

From Proto-Albanian *ksōn(w)ja. Akin to Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign”), which according to Beekes is Pre-Greek,^[1] although the existence of an Avestan cognate (Avestan 𐬑𐬱𐬥𐬀𐬎 (xšnau)) questions this.

huaj m (plural huaj, definite huaji, definite plural huajt)

1. foreigner
2. alien

i huaj (feminine plural të huaja)

1. foreign, alien
2. (nominalised) foreign country, abroad
   • 1873, Girolamo de Rada, Canti di Milosao, canto 1, pages 14, 16, lines 27–29:

     caa i gói / aghiena ndyr t'imme motὺra / chiɔi' arryyn […]

     [ka i goj / ahjena ndër time të motëra / kishi arrën […]]

     I had not long before returned to my sisters from foreign land

huaj

1. past of hua