shkurt

Albanian

Etymology

From sh- (“out-”) +‎ kij (“cut, hew”),[1] (kij from Proto-Albanian *kī̆-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keh₂i-, *(s)keih₂- (“to beat, cuff, poke”). Cognate to Latin caio (“to cut, hew”)). Probably also connected to Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

According to Guillaume Bonnet, possibly from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz. Alternatively borrowed from reconstructed Vulgar Latin *excurtus (cf. Italian scurto, Romanian scurt, Aromanian shcurtu), derivative of Latin curtus. The Albanian, (reconstructed) Latin, and Germanic terms developed in the same way. A borrowing theory does not explain the sense developement and progression of the Albanian root itself.[2]

Adjective

shkurt m (feminine shkurte)

  1. short

Adverb

shkurt

  1. in short, in brief, in sum
  2. abruptly

Noun

shkurt m (definite singular shkurti)

  1. short male
  2. February

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Derived terms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 173-174
  2. Guillaume Bonnet. Les mots latins de l’albanais. Paris–Montreal: L’Harmattan, 1998, pp. 85, 119, 293, 345n1.
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