kaps

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Albanian

Etymology

From kap (seize, hold, grab) +‎ -s (adverb suffix).

Pronunciation

Adverb

kaps

  1. (a human or animal) affected by constipation, unable to empty the bowels (hardened feces)
  2. constipated, costive, stuffy
    E bëri kaps.
    It made him/her/it constipated.
  3. (figurative, regional) stiff, rigid, hard(ly), dead(ly), petrified

Derived terms

Further reading

  • adverb kaps • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)
  • adverb kaps • FJALË - Fjalor Shqip (WORD - Albanian Dictionary)

Latvian

Etymology

Balto-Slavic cognates include Latvian kāpa (dune), Lithuanian kãpas (grave), kopa (dune), Proto-Slavic *kopa (heap, shock).

Cognate to Proto-Albanian *kapa (Standard Albanian kapth ((mountain) path)).[1]

Noun

kaps m (1st declension)

  1. grave
  2. tomb
  3. sepulchre

Declension

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kaps”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 170