hekë
Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *skakā, cognate to Lithuanian šòkti (“to jump, to dance”), Old Irish scén (“horror”), Proto-Slavic *skokь.[1]
Noun
hekë f
- agony (before death)
Related terms
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “hekë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 144