trikë
Appearance
Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Albanian *tri/eK-(ś-), of uncertain origin, probably from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”). Similar formation with degё. Cognate to Ancient Greek τρέχνος (trékhnos) and τέρχνος (térkhnos, “sprout, (young) shoot”).[1]
Noun
[edit]trikë f
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 389