jastëk
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یاصتیق (yastık), یاصدق (yasdıq, “pillow”), from earlier yastuq < *yaztuq, from Proto-Turkic *yạŕtuk (“pillow”). Compare Karakhanid يَسْتُقْ (yastuq, “pillow”), Azerbaijani yastıq (“pillow”), Kazakh жастық (jastıq, “pillow”), Chuvash ҫытар (śytar, “pillow”), Kyrgyz жаздык (cazdık, “pillow”), Southern Altai јастык (ǰastïk, “pillow”), Yakut сыттык (sıttık, “pillow”). For -/zt/- → -/st/-, compare iste-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈjastək]
Noun
jastëk m (indefinite plural jastëkë, definite singular jastëku, definite plural jastëkët)
- pillow, cushion
- pad