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Romanian
Etymology
Probably from Latin alica through a Vulgar Latin root *alaca (compare Spanish álaga), or alternatively from Hungarian alakor, but this itself has no other explanation then being derived from Romanian, unless, formally less likely, connected to the Hurro-Urartian family of Arabic خُلَّر (ḵullar).[1] Others have suggested a connection with Albanian akuë or lakër, from Ancient Greek.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
alac n (plural alace)
- einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum)
- spelt (Triticum spelta or Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta)
Declension
References
- ^ as Sullivan, William Kirby (1859) “On the influence which the Physical Geography, the Animal and Vegetable Productions, etc. of different regions exert upon the Languages, Mythology, and early Literature of Mankind, with reference to its employment as a test of Ethnological Hypotheses”, in The Atlantis. A Register of Literature and Science, volume II, page 165, does in the result, by connecting the Hungarian word to the Ancient Greek one ὄλυρα (ólura), of which we now only know the Hurrian source through other comparisons
- ^ alac in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)