brukë

See also: bruke and brûke

Albanian[edit]

Either from;

A part of a series of loan words from unattested ancient Greek dialects labeled as Macedonian because it was akin to the native idiom of the Greek-speaking population in the Argead Kingdom.^[1] borrowed as Ancient Macedonian *mīrýkhā^[2]
Proto-Albanian *brukā. Compare Proto-Slavic *bьrkь (“twig, stalk, sharp end”).^[3]
Alternatively from Ancient Greek μυρίκη (muríkē).^[4]
According to Orel, from Doric Greek βρυκὰ (brukà)^[5]

brukë f (plural bruka, definite bruka, definite plural brukat) (botany)

Declension of brukë

^ Huld, Martin E. (1986). "Accentual Stratification of Ancient Greek Loanwords in Albanian". Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung. 99 (2): 245–253.
^ Wikipedia contributors. (2021, June 8). Albanian language. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:27, June 11, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albanian_language&oldid=1027529975
^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “brukë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 38
^ Topalli, K. (2017) “brukë”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 254
^ Orel, Vladimir. (1998). Albanian Etymological Dictionary.p 20