shkrep

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *krep-, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-p-, *krep- (“to crack, crash”), an onomatopoeic root. Cognate to Latin crepo (“to resound, ring, tone”). A formation with the prefix sh-.

Verb

shkrep (first-person singular past tense shkrepa, participle shkrepur)

  1. to flash, tone, to strike (till sparks fly off), an idea comes to one’s mind
  2. to pull trigger, shoot (of a weapon)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

A singularized plural of shkarp, a sh- prefixed formation from karp, from Proto-Indo-European *kṛHp-.[1]

Noun

shkrep m (indefinite plural shkrepa, definite singular shkrepi, definite plural shkrepat)

  1. rock

References
  1. Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 363-4
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