akull

Albanian

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Possibly:

  1. A derivation from Proto-Indo-European *keHl- whence also Proto-Celtic *kaletos (“hard”), Proto-Slavic *kaliti (“to temper, harden”), Latin callum (“hardened skin”).[1]
  2. Borrowed from Germanic, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *jekulaz (“icicle”).[2]
  3. Akin Old Armenian ոյծ (oyc, “cold, frost”), suffixed with -ull,[3] though the two terms are phonologically incompatible.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈakuɫ/
  • Rhymes: -akuɫ

Noun

akull m (plural akuj)

  1. ice

Adjective

akull (feminine akulle)

  1. very cold, ice-cold
    Synonym: i ftohtë
  2. (figurative) cold, insensible
    Synonyms: i ftohtë, i ngrirë

Adverb

akull

  1. very
    Synonyms: shumë, fare

Alternative forms
  • akullë (archaic)
  • akëll, hakull (dialectal)

Derived terms
  • akullaç
  • akullçarës
  • akullemë
  • akullimë
  • akullirë
  • akullishtë
  • akullmbajtëse
  • akullnajë
  • akulloj
  • akullor
  • akullsi
  • akulltar
  • akullthyes
  • i akullt

References
  1. Topalli, K. (2011), “ákull”, in Nga vepra “Fjalor etimologjik i gjuhës shqipe” (Studime Filologjike), issue 1–2, page 14
  2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “akull”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 3f.
  3. Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 74

Further reading
  • “akull”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 21b
  • Meyer, G. (1891), “akuł”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 7

Etymology 2

Possibly akin to Italian aculeo (“thorn”).

Noun

akull m (Calabria)

  1. arrow
    Synonyms: shigjetë, heshtëz
    • 1873, Girolamo de Rada, Canti di Milosao, canto 1, page 14, line 9:
      s'e pyrχγaccu aculi
      [s'e përgjaku akulli]
      the arrow did not make her bleed

References
  • Miklosich, Franz (1871), “acúleus”, in Albanische Forschungen II. Die romanischen Elemente im Albanischen (in German), Vienna: Karl Gerold’s Sohn, page 1
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