skallankur

Albanian

Etymology

Uncertain. Derivation from lëng (“juice”), prefixed with a methasised form of Greek ξε- (xe-, “un-”), hence literally, “without juice” is to be discarded.

Adjective

skallankúr

1. (Calabria) unripe (of a grape)

   Synonym: aguridh

   • 1873, Girolamo de Rada, Canti di Milosao, canto 1, page 14, lines 18–19:

     ruɔt pac scalancuur / δeut yyn i chiin χee

     [rusht pak skallankur / dheut ën i kin hje]

     half-unripe grapes / decorated our field