ajkë

See also: ajke

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • alkë, hakë

Etymology

From older dialectal alkë, from Proto-Albanian *alkā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁olHk-. Compare Lithuanian álkti (“to be hungry”), Slovene lákati (“to be hungry, greedy, starving”)).[1]

Noun

ajkë f (plural ajka, definite ajka, definite plural ajkat)

  1. cream
  2. scum (of milk)
  3. (dialectal) clotted cream
  4. wool grease, hair grease

Declension

Declension of ajkë
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ajkë ajka ajka ajkat
accusative ajkën
dative ajke ajkës ajkave ajkave
ablative ajkash

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “ajkë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 3

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “ajkë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[2]
  • “ajkë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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