hekur

Etymology
. There are various possibilities.
 * 1) a  pre-Indo-European word with no recorded or surviving cognates (words for technologies are retained, otherwise we would have expected Albanian to have borrowed the word for iron from one of the many neighbors, invaders or directly from PIE)
 * 2) a substrate word cognate to 🇨🇬, via a proto-form with metathesis *herku
 * 3) related to, from , thus 'to tremble, shiver', literally 'that which trembles, jingles', with a semantic development similar to kërcej, meaning both 'to jump, dance' and 'to make a cracking sound'.
 * 4) an irregular cognate of 🇨🇬.
 * 5) from *soikros (Gustav Meyer), akin to 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) iron (the metal)
 * 2) clothes iron