shkund

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *skunta, either a nasal present of Proto-Indo-European *skeut- or from Proto-Indo-European *sku(n)t-, *ku(n)t- (“to shake, rattle”), close to Proto-Germanic *skundijaną (“to drive, push, compel, rush”) (cf. English shunt). Cognate to Middle Irish scothaid (“to cut off”), Lithuanian skutù (“to scrape”) and Latin scindō (“to tear into parts”)[1].

Verb

shkund (first-person singular past tense shkunda, participle shkundur)

  1. I shake, swing

References
  1. A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p. 424
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