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skat

Post 1

Malabarista - now with added pony

Skat could also, from context, come from the Dutch "schat", meaning "treasure" and used as "darling" would be.


skat

Post 2

Kate Schechter (Back on the right side of the pond)

Well the Afrikaans word for treasure is skat, and of course, Afrikaans is closely related to Dutch.


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Post 3

Malabarista - now with added pony

That's why I can make it out halfway, fascinating language. But it would be smiley - cool if it had origins in both!


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Post 4

AgProv2

It strikes me that the Greek word for a certain kind of "treasure", in the "Where There's Muck There's Brass sense", is "skata". Although it refers to the potential brass to be found in muck, OK then, more to the muck itself...


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