kaps

See also: Kaps

Albanian

Etymology

From kap (“seize, hold, grab”) +‎ -s (“adverb suffix”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kaps]

Adverb

kaps

  1. (a human or animal) affected by constipation, unable to empty the bowels (hardened feces)
  2. constipated, costive, stuffy
    E bëri kaps.
    It made him/her/it constipated.
  3. (figurative, regional) stiff, rigid, hard(ly), dead(ly), petrified

Derived terms

  • kapsllëk m, kapsllëku m
  • kap
    • kapem
    • kapës, kapësi m, kapëse f, kapësja f
    • kapëz f, kapëza f
    • kapje f, kapja f
    • kapshëm
    • kapur
  • kapis, kapit; rraskapit
    • kapitem; rraskapitem
    • kapitje f, kapitja f; rraskapitje f, rraskapitja f
    • kapitur; rraskapitur
  • kaploj
    • kaplohem
    • kapluar
  • kapt

Further reading

  • [1] adverb kaps • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)
  • [2] adverb kaps • FJALË - Fjalor Shqip (WORD - Albanian Dictionary)

Latvian

Etymology

Balto-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

kaps m (1st declension)

  1. grave
  2. tomb
  3. sepulchre

Declension

Declension of kaps (1st declension)
singular plural
nominative kaps kapi
genitive kapa kapu
dative kapam kapiem
accusative kapu kapus
instrumental kapu kapiem
locative kapā kapos
vocative kap kapi

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kaps”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 170
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