rrek
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *raika, related to Lithuanian reikà (“need”), reikti (“to be necessary”), riekti (“to cut, to plow the fallow land”).[1] Possibly related to rrok.
Verb
rrek (first-person singular past tense rreka, participle rrekur)
- to strain, bother
References
- 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 380