hulli

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to pull”). Compare Latin sulcus (“furrow”), Old English sulh, Ancient Greek ἕλκω (hélkō, “to drag”), ὁλκός (holkós, “draft”). Related to heq.

Noun

hullí f

1. furrow
2. groove, wrinkle
3. (medicine) sulcus

Declension

Declension of hulli

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hulli	hullia	hulli	hullitë
accusative		hullinë
dative	hullie	hullisë	hullive	hullive
ablative			hullish

Related terms

• heq

Further reading

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