thikë

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Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *tsikā, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ḱẽi (“to sharpen”). Compare Armenian սուր (sur, “sharp; knife”).[1] Compare Illyrian *sika. Thought to be the source of Latin sica (“dagger”). Also compare German Degen, Old Armenian դակու (daku, “adze, axe”).

Noun

thikë f (plural thika, definite thika, definite plural thikat)

  1. knife, dagger

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “thikë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 477
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