bisk
English
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bisk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *beid-ska, Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- 'to split'. Compare Ancient Greek φείδομαι (pheídomai), Sanskrit भिद् (bhid, “to break”), Latin findo (“split”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (beitan).
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