hêk

See also: hek

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *Hāwyám (compare Persian خایه (xâye), Ossetian айк (ajk), Avestan 𐬀𐬉𐬨 (aēm)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hāwyám, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”) (compare Armenian ձու (ju), English egg, Italian uovo, Russian яйцо́ (jajcó)).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːkˤ

Noun

Central Kurdish	هێلکە (hêlke)

hêk f (Arabic spelling هێک)

1. egg

   Synonym: hêlik

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “hêk”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 249