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Albanian
Etymology
From kap (“seize, hold, grab”) + -s (“adverb suffix”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
kaps
- (a human or animal) affected by constipation, unable to empty the bowels (hardened feces)
- constipated, costive, stuffy
E bëri kaps.- It made him/her/it constipated.
- (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)
- grave
- tomb
- sepulchre
Declension
Declension of kaps (1st declension)
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