visk

Possibly ultimately from South Slavic, compare Bulgarian вискам (viskam, “to whine”), dialectal виск (visk, “shriek”). Alternatively from Visk, hypocoristic of Vinçenc (“Vincent”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvisk/
• Rhymes: -isk

visk m (plural visqe) (regional)

1. donkey foal, donkey colt

   Synonym: kërriç

• “vis/k,~ku”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 2169a
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “visk”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 558a
• Leotti, Angelo (1916) “visk-u”, in L'albanese parlato (in Italian), Milan: U. Hoepli, page 184
• Weigand, Gustav (1914) “visk-u”, in Albanesisch–deutsches und deutsch–albanesisches Wörterbuch (in German), Leipzig: J. A. Barth, page 100a
• Kristoforidhi, Kostandin (1904) “βίσκ-ου”, in Λεξικὸν τῆς Ἀλβανικῆς γλώσσης [Lexikòn tês Albanikês glṓssēs] (in Greek), Athens, page 31
• Meyer, G. (1891) “visk”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 473
• Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “visk”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 509

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋesɡ̊]
• Homophone: hvisk

From Old Danish visk m, Old Norse visk f, from Proto-Germanic *wiskaz, *wiskō (“bundle of hay”), cognate with German Wisch, Dutch wis.

visk c (singular definite visken, plural indefinite viske)

1. wisp of straw

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

visk

1. imperative of viske

From Old Norse visk, from Proto-Germanic *wiskō, a variant of *wiskaz.

• IPA^(key): /vɪsk/
• Rhymes: -ɪsk

visk f (genitive singular viskar, nominative plural viskar)

1. bundle of hay; wisp

   Synonyms: vöndull, knippi, hneppi

Declension of visk
f-s1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	visk	viskin	viskar	viskarnar
accusative	visk	viskina	viskar	viskarnar
dative	visk	viskinni	viskum	viskunum
genitive	viskar	viskarinnar	viska	viskanna

visk

1. imperative of viske

visk m

1. Alternative form of fisk