pakë

See also: pake and Pākē

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bakkon (“ham, flitch”), possibly West-Germanic, compare Frankish bako, Old High German bahho, from Proto-Germanic *bakan (“back”)[1]

Noun

pakë m (indefinite plural pakë, definite singular paka, definite plural pakët)

  1. side of ham, buttock

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “pakë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 309
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