thak

See also: þak and tha̍k

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Masculine doublet of thekë; from Proto-Albanian *tsaka, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱokh₂o- (“branch”) (compare Lithuanian šakà, Serbo-Croatian soha).[1]

Noun

thak m (indefinite plural thakë, definite singular thaku, definite plural thakët)

  1. (North Gheg) tuft, tassel
  2. (North Gheg) awn, beard (of grain)
  3. (North Gheg) stamen

References
  1. Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 393-4

Romani
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Noun

thak f (nominative plural thaka)

  1. Alternative form of khak[1][2]

References
  1. Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “thak”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 285b
  2. Marcel Courthiade (2009), “i/e thak¹#³”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 361b
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