alac

Romanian

Etymology

Probably from Latin alica through a Vulgar Latin root *alaca (compare Spanish álaga), or alternatively from Hungarian alakor, but this itself has no other explanation then being derived from Romanian, unless, formally less likely, connected to the Hurro-Urartian family of Arabic خُلَّر (ḵullar).[1] Others have suggested a connection with Albanian akuë or lakër, from Ancient Greek.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /aˈlak/

Noun

alac n (plural alace)

  1. einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum)
  2. spelt (Triticum spelta or Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta)

Declension
Declension of alac
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) alac alacul (niște) alace alacele
genitive/dative (unui) alac alacului (unor) alace alacelor
vocative alacule alacelor

References
  1. as Sullivan, William Kirby (1859) “On the influence which the Physical Geography, the Animal and Vegetable Productions, etc. of different regions exert upon the Languages, Mythology, and early Literature of Mankind, with reference to its employment as a test of Ethnological Hypotheses”, in The Atlantis. A Register of Literature and Science, volume II, page 165, does in the result, by connecting the Hungarian word to the Ancient Greek one ὄλυρα (ólura), of which we now only know the Hurrian source through other comparisons
  2. alac in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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