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shkas

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Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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. ^ A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p.418