kabisht

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Albanian

Etymology

Either a formation in -sht, from an unattested *kap, from Proto-Albanian *kaba (cf. Lithuanian kabeti (to hang), kabà (crooked tree)),[1] or a ka- prefixed form of bisht.

Noun

kabisht m (plural kabishte, definite kabishti, definite plural kabishtet)

  1. earwig

Declension

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kabisht”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 160