shkund
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Albanian
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]- From Proto-Albanian *skunta, either a nasal present of Proto-Indo-European *skeut- or from *sku(n)t-, *ku(n)t- (“to shake, rattle”).
- Close to Latin excutere, Italian scuotere and Proto-Germanic *skundijaną (“to drive, push, compel, rush”) (compare English shunt).
- Cognate to Middle Irish scothaid (“to cut off”), Lithuanian skutù (“to scrape”) and Latin scindō (“to tear into parts”).[2]
Verb
[edit]shkund (aorist shkunda, participle shkundur)
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 131, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shkund”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 424