ajkë

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • hakë, alkë

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 (indefinite plural ajka, definite singular ajka, definite plural ajkat)

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

References
  1. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 3.
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