[skâːpt]
CilmeFrom an earlier *skābti, from Proto-Baltic *skāb-ti/tey, from Proto-Indo-European *skēb-, *skēbʰ- (“to slice, to cut with a sharp tool”), from the stem *sek- (“to cut”) with an extra -b(ʰ). The semantic change, apparently exclusive to Balto-Slavic languages, was: “to cut” > “to become sharp (by, for cutting)” > “to become sharp (in taste)” > “to become sour, acid.” Cognates include Lithuanian skõbti (“to carve, to hollow out, to pluck”), dialectal skóbti (“to go sour”), Old Church Slavonic скобль (skoblĭ, “scraper”), Russian ско́бель (skóbelʹ, “plane iron, scraper”), Bulgarian хо́бя (hóbja, “to damage”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (skaban, “to shear”), Old High German scaba (“plane”), German schaben (“to scrape, to scrub”), Latin scabō (“to scratch, to scrape”).
- intransitive, third-person, usuallyto become, go sour, acid
“piens siltumā skābst” — milk goes sour in the heat
“piens sācis skābt” — the milk has begun to go sour
“augsnēm ar lielu ūdens daudzumu ir pastiprināta tieksme skābt un kļūt nederīgām tādu kultūru audzēšanā, kas skābumu nepacieš” — soils with a large amount of water have an increased propensity to acidify and become unfit for those cultures that cannot endure acidity
- intransitiveto become sour, surly, irritated, frustrated
“mājās ķildīga sieva lai skābst, / pilsonis ruma un mīlas slāpst” — let the peevish wife go sour at home, / a citizen is thirsty for love and rum
“bet vai tad ne no šā, ne no tā var tikai skābt? nebūt ne! ja vien cilvēks pēc dabas nav sirdīgs īgņa” — but should one really go sour not from this, not from that (= for no reason)? not at all! unless one is by nature a grumbler
Formasconjugation(first-person) · skābstu(present) · skābsti(present) · skābst(present) · skābu(past) · es(first-person, indicative, singular) · skābstu(first-person, indicative, present, singular) · skābu(first-person, indicative, past, singular) · skābšu(first-person, future, indicative, singular) · -(first-person, imperative, singular) · tu(indicative, second-person, singular) · skābsti(indicative, present, second-person, singular) · skābi(indicative, past, second-person, singular) · skābsi(future, indicative, second-person, singular) · skābsti(imperative, second-person, singular) · viņš(indicative, singular, third-person) · viņa(indicative, singular, third-person) · skābst(indicative, present, singular, third-person) · skāba(indicative, past, singular, third-person) · skābs(future, indicative, singular, third-person)
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