ahalke

Basque

Alternative forms

• ãhãlke (Souletin)
• ahalge (Navarro-Lapurdian)

Etymology

ahal (“power”) +‎ -ge (“contraction of gabe (“without”)”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /ahalke/ [a.hal.ke]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /alke/ [al.ke]
• Rhymes: -alke, -e
• Hyphenation: a‧hal‧ke

Noun

ahalke inan

1. (Northern, Navarrese) shame

   Synonym: lotsa (Southern)

Declension

Declension of ahalke (inanimate, ending in vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	ahalke	ahalkea	ahalkeak
ergative	ahalkek	ahalkeak	ahalkeek
dative	ahalkeri	ahalkeari	ahalkeei
genitive	ahalkeren	ahalkearen	ahalkeen
comitative	ahalkerekin	ahalkearekin	ahalkeekin
causative	ahalkerengatik	ahalkearengatik	ahalkeengatik
benefactive	ahalkerentzat	ahalkearentzat	ahalkeentzat
instrumental	ahalkez	ahalkeaz	ahalkeez
inessive	ahalketan	ahalkean	ahalkeetan
locative	ahalketako	ahalkeko	ahalkeetako
allative	ahalketara	ahalkera	ahalkeetara
terminative	ahalketaraino	ahalkeraino	ahalkeetaraino
directive	ahalketarantz	ahalkerantz	ahalkeetarantz
destinative	ahalketarako	ahalkerako	ahalkeetarako
ablative	ahalketatik	ahalketik	ahalkeetatik
partitive	ahalkerik	—	—
prolative	ahalketzat	—	—

Further reading

• “ahalke”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “ahalke”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005