skallankur
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Albanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain. Derivation from lëng (“juice”), prefixed with a methasised form of Greek ξε- (xe-, “un-”), hence literally, “without juice”[1] is to be discarded.
Adjective[edit]
skallankúr
- (Calabria) unripe (of a grape)
- Synonym: aguridh
- 1873, Girolamo de Rada, Canti di Milosao, canto 1, page 14, lines 18–19:
- ruɔt pac scalancuur / δeut yyn i chiin χee
- [rusht pak skallankur / dheut ën i kin hje]
- half-unripe grapes / decorated our field