Esperanto edit

Etymology edit

Possibly from Italian scuotere, from Vulgar Latin *exquatere, *excotere, a remodelling of Latin excutere.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈskui]
  • Rhymes: -ui
  • Hyphenation: sku‧i

Verb edit

skui (present skuas, past skuis, future skuos, conditional skuus, volitive skuu)

  1. (transitive) to shake, to shake out of fear.
    • 2002, La Sankta Biblio[1], archived from the original on 4 March 2016, I Makabeoj 3:25:
      Depost tiam oni timis Judason kaj liajn fratojn. La ĉirkaŭajn popolojn tre skuis la timo.
      Then Judas and his brothers began to be feared, and dread fell upon the Gentiles about them.

Conjugation edit