Albanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek πατάσσω (patássō, to strike).[1]

Verb edit

pataks (Calabria)

  1. (transitive) to amaze, surprise
  2. (mediopassive) See pataksem.

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “patáks”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 324