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Albanian
Etymology
From South Slavic; cf. Serbo-Croatian њу̏шка / njȕška (“snout, muzzle, neb”), Bulgarian нюшка (njuška). [1] Alternatively from Albanian noçë, of unclear origin. Possibly from an older *noshë, continuing Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s, *nh₂es (“nose, nostrils”), with the affricatization of the original final fricative (cf. çaj ~ shaj etc.).[2]
Noun
noçkë f (plural noçka, definite noçka, definite plural noçkat)
- (anatomy) protruding part of a bone, e.g. ankle, knuckle, fetlock
- knob, nodule, protuberance
- knot in wood
- snout, trunk (elephant)
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “noçkë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 300
- ^ Ylli, Xhelal (1997) Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350), volume I. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 173