Albanian edit

Etymology edit

Gheg variant of Tosk shpih, from Proto-Albanian *dis- and *pīska, from Proto-Indo-European *pih₁-sḱe/o-, from *peh₁-i- (to taunt) (compare Old English fēon (to hate), Sanskrit पीयति (pī́yati, to blame, abuse)).[1]

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Verb edit

shpif (aorist shpifa, participle shpifur)

  1. to slander, defame
  2. to lie, say false things
  3. (colloquial) to make up, fabricate

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References edit

  1. ^ Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013), 997.