rrok
Albanian
Etymology 1
Disputed.
- Orel proposes a borrowing from Proto-Germanic *rukkjan (“to move, to remove, to stir, to snatch, to pull, to push”) (cf. Old English roccian, Old High German rucchan, Old Norse rykkja).[1]
Etymology 2
Derivative of the verb, originally meaning 'something snatched off'.
References
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “rrok”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 389
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