kaps
See also: Kaps
Albanian
editEtymology
editFrom kap (“seize, hold, grab”) + -s (“adverb suffix”).
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editkaps
- (a human or animal) affected by constipation, unable to empty the bowels (hardened feces)
- constipated, costive, stuffy
- E bëri kaps.
- It made him/her/it constipated.
- (figurative, regional) stiff, rigid, hard(ly), dead(ly), petrified
Derived terms
editRelated terms
edit- kap
- kapt
- kapis, kapit; rraskapit
- kapitem; rraskapitem
- kapitur; rraskapitur
- kapitje f, kapitja f; rraskapitje f, rraskapitja f
- kaploj
Further reading
editLatvian
editEtymology
editBalto-Slavic cognates include Latvian kāpa (“dune”), Lithuanian kãpas (“grave”), kopa (“dune”), Proto-Slavic *kopa (“heap, shock”).
Cognate to Proto-Albanian *kapa (Standard Albanian kapth (“(mountain) path”)).[1]
Noun
editkaps m (1st declension)
Declension
editDeclension of kaps (1st declension)
References
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kaps”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 170