шкрт

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Macedonian

Etymology

Cognate with Serbo-Croatian шкрт.

Pronunciation

Adjective

шкрт (škrt) (comparative пошкрт, superlative најшкрт, adverb шкрто)

  1. (colloquial, nonstandard) stingy, miserly, niggardly
    Synonyms: скржав (skržav), стиснат (stisnat), стегнат (stegnat)

Declension

See also

References

  • шкрт” in Официјален дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Oficijalen digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) − makedonski.gov.mk (in Macedonian)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Per Skok, from Vulgar Latin *excurtus (short) with metaphorical meaning. Cognate with Romanian curtus (short, brief), possibly Albanian shkurt (in short). Snoj alternatively reconstructs Proto-Slavic *skъrtъ (shrunk, cut short), from *skъrnǫti (to trim, to shrink).

Pronunciation

Adjective

шкр̏т (Latin spelling škȑt, definite шкр̏тӣ, comparative шкр̏тијӣ)

  1. stingy, miserly, avaricious, mean

Declension

Further reading

  • Skok, Petar (1973) “шкрт”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 3 (poni² – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 403
  • Snoj, Marko (2016) “škrt”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si