shkas

Albanian

Etymology

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

shkas (aorist shkita, participle shkarë)

  1. to slip, slide; motive, pretext

Derived terms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shkas”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 418
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