shkep

From kep. Beside shqep, an Albanian formation with the intensive prefix sh-, from Proto-Albanian *skaipa. Compare Old Norse skífa (“to split”), Old Frisian skīvia (“to divide”)^[1] and perhaps English shape.

shkep (aorist shkepa, participle shkepur)

1. to hew, chisel, sew, stich

• kep
• shqep
• qep
• sqep
• shqip
• shkabë

A parallel form is shkrep, continuing Proto-Albanian *krepa (“body”), cognate to Sanskrit कृप् (ḱṛp, “shape, beautiful appareance”), Latin corpus (“body”), Old High German hrēf (“belly”). Similar sense development in Germanic (compare Gothic galeiks (“like”), from leik (“body”)).^[2]

shkep (aorist shkepa, participle shkepur)

1. to resemble