It seems that in Romanian <boasca> and Alb. <bujashkë> 'splinter,
chip (of wood) we another concordance. To my view, Alb. <bujashka>
can't be separable from <ashkë> 'splinter, chip, scrap'. If we agree
that -kë is diminutive suffix, then we accept Orel's etymology AED,
pp.11) that Alb. <ashkë> is derived from PIE *ak^s-, probably
extended root of *ak^-, comparable with Skt aksa-, Greek akson and
Lat. axis.
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