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Malabarista - now with added pony Started conversation Aug 30, 2005
Skat could also, from context, come from the Dutch "schat", meaning "treasure" and used as "darling" would be.
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Kate Schechter (Back on the right side of the pond) Posted Aug 30, 2005
Well the Afrikaans word for treasure is skat, and of course, Afrikaans is closely related to Dutch.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Aug 30, 2005
That's why I can make it out halfway, fascinating language. But it would be 
if it had origins in both!
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AgProv2 Posted Dec 3, 2009
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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