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 (first-person singular past tense 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
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