pataks

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Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek πατάσσω (patássō, to strike).[1]

Verb[edit]

pataks (Calabria)

  1. (transitive) to amaze, surprise
  2. (mediopassive) See pataksem.

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “patáks”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 324