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

Further reading
  • adverb kaps • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)
  • 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 (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) kaps kapi
accusative (akuzatīvs) kapu kapus
genitive (ģenitīvs) kapa kapu
dative (datīvs) kapam kapiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) kapu kapiem
locative (lokatīvs) kapā kapos
vocative (vokatīvs) kap kapi

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