shkas

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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 (aorist shkita, participle shkarë)

  1. to slip, slide; motive, pretext

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shkas”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 418