shkep
Albanian
Etymology 1
From kep. Beside shqep, an Albanian formation with the intensive prefix sh-, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *skaipa. Compare Old Norse skífa (“to split”), Old Frisian skīvia (“to divide”)[1] and perhaps English shape.
Verb
shkep (aorist shkepa, participle shkepur)
Related terms
Etymology 2
A parallel form is shkrep, continuing (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *krepa (“body”), cognate to Sanskrit कृप् (ḱṛp, “shape, beautiful appareance”), Latin corpus (“body”), Old High German hrēf (“belly”). Similar sense development in Germanic (compare Gothic galeiks (“like”), from leik (“body”)).[2]
Verb
shkep (aorist shkepa, participle shkepur)
- to resemble
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shkep”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 419
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shkep”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 419