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Diminutive in -ç of nye ‘knot, gnarl’, variant of nyjë.[1] More at nyjë.
nyç (feminine nyçe)
- knotty, gnarly
- (figurative) headstrong
- (medicine) nodose
- ^ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 303.