shkas

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Albanian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *skatja. Cognate to Latin scateō (“to stream, to flow out”), Lithuanian skantù, skàsti (“to spring, to jump”), and perhaps to Ancient Greek σκάξω (skáxō, “to be lame”).[1]

Verb

[edit]

shkas (aorist shkita, participle shkarë)

  1. to slip, slide; motive, pretext

Derived terms

[edit]
[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shkas”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 418
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=shkas&oldid=58783995"