ajkë

Albanian

Alternative forms

• alkë, hakë

Etymology

From older dialectal alkë, from Proto-Albanian *alkā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁olHk-. Compare Lithuanian álkti (“to be hungry”), Slovene lákati (“to be hungry, greedy, starving”)).

Noun

ajkë f (plural ajka, definite ajka, definite plural ajkat)

1. cream
2. scum (of milk)
3. (dialectal) clotted cream
4. wool grease, hair grease

Declension

Declension of ajkë

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	ajkë	ajka	ajka	ajkat
accusative			ajkën
dative	ajkeje	ajkave	ajkës	ajkave
ablative		ajkash

Further reading

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